Producing desire [electronic resource] : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: xv, 223 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.7/0956/0903 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ18.M52 Z44 2006eb
Other classification:
  • 15.75
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.

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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