By Julia Kelto Lillis, author of Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity“Bodily” or “physical virginity” is one of the most used yet unclear phrases about virginity in academic and popular speech. Most who use it simply assume others know what they mean. For instance
By Dave Roediger, author of Coloured White: Transcending the Racial Past"Smear Campaign" originated in a pair of talks I gave in 2000, one at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and the other at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. The resulting essay, appearing in Colored White: Transcending the