Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900
Title:
Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900
ISBN:
9780520245631
9780520245648
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Publication Information New:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
xv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52
Series Title:
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52
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.
Language:
English