Desiring Arabs / Joseph A. Massad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massad, Joseph Andoni, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Arab.

Arabs--Sexual behavior.

Arabs.

Arab countries--Foreign public opinion, Western.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr

Contents:

Introduction

Anxiety in civilization

Remembrances of desires past

Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world

Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present

Deviant fictions

The truth of fictional desires

Conclusion

Works cited

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-441) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611965914

9781281965912

128196591X

9780226509600

0226509605

OCLC:

476228077