Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900
This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues--in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic explorati...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2006
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| Colección: | Studies on the history of society and culture
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991001244879708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy
- Regulating desire: shariAa and kanun in the Ottoman Middle East
- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths
- Dream interpretation and the subconscious
- 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
