Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 /

Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 /

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Main Author: Zeʼevi, Dror,‏ 1953- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.

Subjects:

Sex customs > Middle East.
Desire.

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Call Number: HQ18 .M52 Z44 2006

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Table of Contents:
  • The body sexual : medicine and physiognomy
  • Regulating desire : sharīʻa and kanun
  • Morality wars : orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths
  • Dream interpretation and the unconscious
  • Boys in the hood : shadow theater as a sexual counter-script
  • The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts
  • Conclusion : modernity and sexual discourse
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.