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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| 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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Table of 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.