Virginia Burrus
American scholar of early Christianity and late antiquity whose work explores gender, sexuality, hagiography, and ecocriticism; author of books such as The Sex Lives of Saints and Saving Shame and longtime professor of religion.
Books
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1. The Sex Lives Of Saints
An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
A scholarly exploration of ancient Christian saints’ lives that traces how erotic desire, chastity, and sanctity are deeply intertwined. Drawing on feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic theory, it rereads narratives of virgin martyrs and ascetics to illuminate how rhetoric surrounding desire, suffering, and power shapes holiness and the very category of the saint.
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