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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
52. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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 exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundar. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938984 0520938984 9781429467438 1429467436 0520904052 9780520904057 |