Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures

Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures

Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day

Kreil, Professor Aymon; Tolino, Professor Serena; Sorbera, Dr Lucia

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

12/2020

264

Dura

Inglês

9781838604080

15 a 20 dias

549

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Introduction. The Many Names of Desire: On the Study of Sexual Practices, Norms and Binaries in the Middle East, Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino

Part I. Who's Who: Beyond the Gender Binary
1. Locating Discourses on the Gender Binary (and Beyond) in Pre-modern Islamicate Societies, Serena Tolino
2. Illusions of Androgyny: Crossdressing Women (Ghulamiyyat) in Abbasid Society, Johannes Thomann
3. Contesting Masculinity in Pre-Modern Arab Societies. Intoxication, Desire and Antinomian Mysticism, Danilo Marino
4. Three Genders, Two Sexualities: the Evidence of Ottoman Erotic Terminology, Irvin Cemil Schick

Part II. Subverting the Sexual Norm in Modern Arab Cultural Productions
5. Eros and Etiquette - Reflections on the Ban of a Central Theme in Nineteenth Century Arab Writings, Nadia Al-Bagdadi
6. Women's Literature as Counter-Narrative in Ba'thist Iraq?, Achim Rohde
7. Framing the Closet: Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema in the 1970s, Koen M. Van Eynde

Part III: Sexuality, Power and Resilience in the Middle East and North Africa Today
8. Living Archives of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement: the Political Biography of Aida Seif al-Dawla, Lucia Sorbera
9. Sex Work in Tangier and the Emergence of New Youthful Subjectivities, Meriam Cheikh
10. The Straight Story - Challenging Heteronormativity in Beirut, Erica Li Lundqvist
11. Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity, Nijmi Edres

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