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Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.
LIBRA HQ18.M52 Z44 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-
- Series:
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Middle East.
- Sex customs.
- Desire.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A comprehensive survey of sexual discourses in the early Modern Middle East from the Ottoman era in the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520245644
- 0520245636
- OCLC:
- 60375506
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520245631
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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