A history of celibacy / Elizabeth Abbott
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- Abbott, Elizabeth
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- New York : Scribner, 2000
- 493 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684849437
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- Author's Note
- Introduction: Considering Celibacy
- Chapter 1: Divine Pagan Celibacy
- Greek Myths
- Athena, Artemis, and Hestia
- Mythical Virgins
- Greek Literature
- Hippolytus Opposes Love
- Lysistrata's Ultimatum
- Classical Rituals
- Thesmophoria
- Cult of Isis
- Oracle of Delphi
- Special Virgins
- Vestal Virgins
- Pagan and Jewish Asceticism
- The Influence of Greek Philosophy
- The Essenes Prepare for Armageddon
- Chapter 2: Early Christianity
- Origins
- A Tale of Two Women
- Martyrdom Toughens the New Religion
- The Second Coming
- Hail Mary? The Progressive Virginities of the Holy Mother
- Encratites and Gnostics Boycott the Womb
- Give Me Chastity...but Not Yet
- Unconventional Virgins
- Church Mothers
- Female Transvestite Monks
- Bearded Female Saints
- Celibacy Out in the Desert
- The Desert Fathers' New Alphabet of the Heart St. Simeon's Chastity at Sixty Feet High Marrying "the True Man"
- Chapter 3: Later Christianity
- Celibacy and Clerics
- Medieval Eastern Monasteries
- Western Monasteries
- Martin Luther on Nocturnal Emissions
- Celibacy One, Lust Zero
- To Wed or Not to Wed
- Apostolic Women
- Begin the Beguine
- Women Out of This World
- Mary Ward, Who Was "But a Woman"
- Brides of Christ
- Catherine of Siena
- Hildegard of Bingen Frowns on Fasting
- Mohawk Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
- Committed Sisters
- Convents of Joy
- Unwilling Nuns
- Shotgun Celibacy
- An Unwilling Nun's Love Cut Short
- Secular Celibates and Agape Love
- The Shakers
- Father Divine
- Chapter 4: Other Major Religions and Rites
- Hinduism
- Shiva, Erotic and Celibate God
- Celibacy in Stages
- Modern Celibacy in Sannyasi Orders
- The Daughters of Brahma
- Buddhism
- Buddha and His Precepts
- Men and Women of the Monasteries
- Jainism
- Ritual Celibacy
- Celibacy Charms Shamans
- Virgin Priestesses of the Sun
- Sex-Positive Religions: Judaism and Islam
- Judaism
- Islam
- Chapter 5: Celibacy to Conserve Semen
- Totus Homo Semen Est
- Conserving the Vital Life Force
- Davy Crockett and the Male Purity Movement
- John Harvey Kellogg's Diet to Cure Sex
- The Power of Semen in Sports
- The Greeks Train Sound Minds in Chaste Bodies
- The Victorians Exercise Muscular Christianity
- The Cherokees Play Ball
- Today's Chaste Athletes
- Indian Wrestlers
- Brahmacharya and the Power of Semen
- Celibate Selflessness
- Gandhi's Women
- Semen as Patriotic Elixir
- Chapter 6: Female Celibacy Transcends Gender
- Cross-Dressing for Military Success
- Joan of Arc
- A Crow Nation Gender-Bender
- Amazons of Old Dahomey
- Defying the Natural Order
- Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen
- Florence Nightingale
- Chastity with an Agenda
- British Spinsters Strike against Sex
- Spinsters United
- Sexology versus "the Stinging Weapon of Death"
- Chapter 7: Celibacy as Womanly Duty
- Celibacy as a Guarantee for Marriage
- Chaste Brides Guarantee Paternity
- Virgins and Disgraced Maidens
- Testing for Maidenheads
- Exceptional Aztec and Enga Virgin Bachelors
- That Pesky Double Standard
- Harlots for Hire
- Outraged Women Demand Chaste Men
- A Five-Pound Virgin Tips the Scales of Justice
- White Women, Black Men
- Aids to Chastity
- Chastity Belts
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Bound Feet
- Chapter 8: Abstaining in a Good Cause
- No Loving, No Baby
- Postpartum Abstinence
- Granny Time Ends Sex
- Voluntary Motherhood
- Chapter 9: Coerced Celibacy
- Involuntary Celibacy
- Doing Celibate Time
- Vestal Virgins of St. Petersburg
- Celibacy in Mao's Cultural Revolution
- Celibacy in a Crowded Marriage
- Celibate Victims of Skewed Gender Ratios
- Widowed Celibacy
- Chaste Hindu Widowhood
- Suttee as the Ultimate Chastity Belt
- Castrated Celibacy
- Eunuchs in Greek Mythology
- Chinese Eunuchism as a Career Opportunity
- Byzantine Eunuch Paradise
- Black African Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire
- The Hijras of India
- The Castrati of the Opera
- Castration to Punish Offenders
- Chapter 10: Celibacy to Repress Unconventional or Sorrowful Sexuality
- Leonardo da Vinci Avoids Prison
- Lewis Carroll Allays Suspicion
- John Ruskin Shuns Repellent Sex
- Sir Isaac Newton Mends a Broken Heart
- Boston Marriages Celebrate Romantic Friendship
- Chapter 11: Impotent Celibacy
- Unwelcome Celibacy
- Limp as Yesterday's Lettuce
- Testing for Impotence in Prerevolutionary France
- Celibacy in Response to Vaginismus
- You Can Be Too Thin: Anorexic Celibacy
- Chapter 12: Celibacy in Literature
- Courtly, Ennobling, and Unrequited Love
- Milton and the Chaste Lady
- Pamela, Shamela
- Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata
- Judith Shakespeare
- Garp's Mother
- Vampire Celibacy, Medium Rare
- Chapter 13: The New Celibacy
- Shrinking Cloisters
- Vatican Decrees Celibacy a Brilliant Jewel
- Misogynous Exceptions to the Papal Rule of Celibacy
- Catholic Priests Vote with Their Feet
- The Third Way of Sophistry and Cheating
- Divorce ̉la Catholic Church
- The Bleeding
- New Age Monasticism
- Celibacy as an Undivided Heart
- The Power Virgins
- True Love Waits
- Young People's Movement
- Reborn Chastity
- Lesbian Celibacy versus Lesbian "Bed Death"
- Celibacy in the Age of AIDS
- Sex and AIDS
- Celibacy and AIDS
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-474) and index.
- Subject:
- Celibacy -- History
- Also Titled:
- A history of celibacy : from Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Ghandi, and Cher
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