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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women (2009) is a book about virginity by feminist author Jessica Valenti.^[1] The book was first released onto hardback on March 24, 2009, through Seal Press. Valenti argues that there is a prevalent false notion promoted within the United States that a woman's worth is predicated upon whether or not she is sexually active, implying that the loss of virginity can negatively affect her.^[2] A DVD tie-in titled The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement's War Against Women was released in 2011.^[3]

Summary[edit]

In the book, Valenti discusses various different elements of society that promote chastity and discourage pre-marital sexual activity in women and teenage girls. She states that many sex education programs in the United States will only promote abstinence-only education, which she feels gives an unhealthy attitude towards sex and women. Valenti also states that the myth uses virginity as an 'easy ethical road map' in order to teach women that, unlike the ability to abstain from having sex, their beliefs and actions hold no bearing to their value as human beings.^[4] Valenti does not discourage chastity but shows disapproval over virginity pledge programs such as purity balls and the Silver Ring Thing for the aforementioned reasons.

Valenti also argues that the over-emphasizing and idealization of virginity promotes the Madonna–whore complex, which would make many women and teen girls choose to be hypersexualized as they cannot live up to the expectations placed upon them.^[5] How to uninstall omnisphere 2. She also states that she believes that the concept of virginity is a myth, as the actual definition of the term is abstract and differs depending on the person, religion, or situation. Valenti explains that she was unable to find an exact medical definition of virginity in the Harvard Medical School library and that the popular concept of virginity did not fit both genders.^[6]

In other media[edit]

Commentators^[specify] have linked Valenti's views on virginity to discussion of sexual assault victims and the Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^Harris, Lynn (July 22, 2009). 'The Stork Is Dead; Four recent books pull back the curtain on human sexual relations'. Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
2. ^Kaplan, C (2010). 'Book review: Valenti J, The purity myth: how America's obsession with virginity is hurting young women'. Nursing Ethics. 17 (6): 793–794. doi:10.1177/09697330100170061402.
3. ^Riscol, Lara (2013). 'Her Hymen Goes to Washington: Review of The Purity Myth DVD'. American Journal of Sexuality Education. 8 (1–2): 97–103. doi:10.1080/15546128.2012.740968.
4. ^(2009). The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women, p. 26. Seal Press. ISBN978-1-58005-253-5.
5. ^'No such thing as virginity, author says'. Today. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
6. ^Clark-Flory, Tracy. 'The virginity fetish'. Salon. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
7. ^E.J. Graff (January 4, 2013). 'Purity Culture Is Rape Culture'. Prospect.

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945. It has gone through numerous reprints and re-editions (1969, 1970, 1978, 1984, 1991, 2002). In 2003 a further edition was brought out as volume 2 in Mary Douglas: Collected Works (ISBN0415291054).

Summary[edit]

The line of inquiry in Purity and Danger traces the words and meaning of dirt in different contexts. What is regarded as dirt in a given society is any matter considered out of place. (Douglas took this lead from William James.) She attempted to clarify the differences between the sacred, the clean and the unclean in different societies and times. But this does not entail judging religions as pessimistic or optimistic in their understanding of purity or dirt—e.g., as dirt-affirming or otherwise. Through a complex and sophisticated reading of ritual, religion, and lifestyle, Douglas challenged Western ideas of pollution, making clear how the context and social history is essential.

As an example of this approach, Douglas first proposed that the kosher laws were not, as many believed, either primitive health regulations or randomly chosen as tests of the Israelites' commitment to God. Instead, Douglas argued that the laws were about symbolic boundary-maintenance. Prohibited foods were those that did not seem to fall neatly into any category. For example, pigs' place in the natural order was ambiguous because they shared the cloven hoof of the ungulates, but did not chew cud.

Later in a 2002 preface to Purity and Danger, Douglas went on to retract this explanation of the kosher rules, saying that it had been 'a major mistake.' Instead, she proposed that 'the dietary laws intricately model the body and the altar upon one another.' For instance, among land animals, Israelites were only allowed to eat animals that were also allowed to be sacrificed: animals that depend on herdsmen. Douglas concluded from this that animals that are abominable to eat are not in fact impure, but rather that 'it is abominable to harm them.' She claimed that later interpreters (even later Biblical authors) had misunderstood this.

Influence[edit]

The historian of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown states that Purity and Danger was a major influence behind his important 1971 article 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity', which is considered one of the bases for all subsequent study of Early Christian asceticism.^[1]

In Powers of Horror (1980), where Julia Kristeva elaborates her theory of abjection, she recognizes the influence of Douglas’s “fundamental work,” while criticizing certain aspects of her approach.^[2]

Reviews[edit]

• Edwin Ardener in Man, New Series, 2:1 (1967), p. 139.
• Melford Spiro in American Anthropologist, New Series, 70:2 (1968), pp. 391–393.
• William McCormack in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 6:2 (1967), pp. 313–314.
• Joseph B. Tamney in Sociological Analysis, 28:1 (1967), pp. 56–57.
• Phillip R. Kunz in Review of Religious Research, 10:2 (1969), pp. 114–115.
• Albert James Bergesen, review essay in American Journal of Sociology, 83:4 (1978), pp. 1012–1021 (also dealing with Douglas's later book, Natural Symbols).
• P. H. Gulliver in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 30:2, Fiftieth Anniversary Volume (1967), pp. 462–464.

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References[edit]

1. ^Brown, Peter (1998). 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity, 1971-1997'. Journal of Early Christian Studies. 6: 359–63.
2. ^Kristeva, Julia, Trans. Leon Roudiez (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press: 65-67.

Bibliography[edit]

• Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography (London: Routledge, 1999), ch. 4.

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• 2002 edition on google books
• Leonore Davidoff, 'Speaking Volumes: Purity and Danger', Times Higher Education Supplement 19 May 1995. Accessed 22 March 2010.