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Desiring Arabs
Abstract
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward.
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Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr
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| Descrizione | *Desiring Arabs / Joseph A. Massad Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 1 online resource (xiv, 453 pages) |
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| Note | English. Formato pdf/epub Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260162 |
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| ISBN | 9786611965914 | |
| 9780226509600 | ||
| 6611965912 | ||
| 0226509605 | ||
| 9780226509587 | ||
| 0226509583 | ||
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| Anno pubblicazione | 2007 | |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index |