Sex and desire in Muslim cultures : beyond norms and transgression from the Abbasids to the present day / edited by Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors:	Kreil, Aymon (Editor), Sorbera, Lucia (Editor), Tolino, Serena (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
Series:	Gender and Islam series.
Subjects:	Sex customs > Islamic countries. Sex > Islamic countries > Case studies. Women > Islamic countries > Social conditions > Case studies. Sex > Religious aspects > Islam. Desire > Religious aspects > Islam. Islam > History. Islamic literature, Arabic > History and criticism. Sex in literature. Sex in motion pictures. Desire in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Islamic countries > History. Sex. Sex customs. Social conditions. Women > Social conditions. Islamic countries > Social conditions. Islamic countries. Case studies.

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Text
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
Chapter 1 Locating Discourses on the Gender Binary (and Beyond) in Pre-modern Islamicate Societies Serena Tolino
Chapter 2 Illusions of Androgyny: Cross-dressing Women (Ghulāmiyyāt) in Abbasid Society Johannes Thomann
Chapter 3 Contesting Masculinity in Pre-modern Arab Societies: Intoxication, Desire and Antinomian Mysticism Danilo Marino
Chapter 4 Three Genders, Two Sexualities: The Evidence of Ottoman Erotic Terminology İrvin Cemil Schick
Part II Subverting the Sexual Norm in Modern ARAB Cultural Productions
Chapter 5 Eros and Etiquette: Reflections on the Ban of a Central Theme in Nineteenth-Century Arab Writings Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Chapter 6 Women's Literature as Counter-Narrative in Baʻthist Iraq? Achim Rohde
Chapter 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
Chapter 8 Living Archives of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement: The Political Biography of Aida Seif al-Dawla
Chapter 9 Sex Work in Tangier and the Emergence of New Youthful Subjectivities Mériam Cheikh
Chapter 10 The Straight Story: Challenging Heteronormativity in Beirut
Chapter 11 Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity Nijmi Edres
Index

Sex and desire in Muslim cultures : beyond norms and transgression from the Abbasids to the present day / edited by Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino.

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