Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire

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Islamicate sexualities : translations across temporal geographies of desire

edited by Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi ; with contributions by Dina Al-Kassim ... [et al.]

(Harvard Middle Eastern monographs, 39)

Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University , distributed by Harvard University Press, c2008

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"This anthology emerges from a seminar sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in May 2003"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-363) and index

Contents of Works

  • The past is a foreign country? : the times and spaces of islamicate sexuality studies / Valerie Traub
  • A handsome boy among those barbarous Turks : Cervantes's Muslims and the art and science of desire / Leyla Rouhi
  • Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer
  • Comparison, competition, and cross-dressing : cross-cultural analysis in a contested world / Brad Epps
  • The obscenity of the vizier / Frédéric Lagrange
  • Homoerotic liaisons among the Mamluk elite in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Everett K. Rowson
  • "In spirit we ate each other's sorrow" : female companionship in seventeenth-century Safavi Iran / Kathryn Babayan
  • Types, acts, or what? : regulation of sexuality in nineteenth-century Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi

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