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

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

Dror Ze'evi

(Studies on the history of society and culture / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, editors, 52)

University of California Press, c2006

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index

Contents of Works

  • The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy
  • Regulating desire: sharīʿa 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

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