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

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This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues--in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic explorati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Colección:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.
Temas:
1500-1800.
1900-talet.
Sex customs > Middle East.
Desire.
Sexuality > history
Désir.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Desire
Sex customs
Sexualitet > historia.
Begär > historia.
Middle East.
Middle East
Moyen-Orient.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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