"Dismantling Virginity" is a comprehensive and updated examination of the social, medical, and legal construction of virginity in the historical context of Turkey. The book is based on the dissertation of Emek Ergün and offers an in-depth analysis of patriarchal control over women's bodies and sexualities. It highlights how practices such as virginity examinations and surgical procedures to restore virginity are utilized by medical and legal institutions to anchor virginity as a fixed physical reality. Through a critical engagement with these topics, the study demonstrates how medical and legal institutions maintain control over female bodies and sexualities and establish virginity as an undeniable fact. The book is aimed at scholars in gender and women's studies, medical sociology, as well as feminist activists and professionals.