| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52 |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- Middle East
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Desire.
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Sexuality -- history
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Desire
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Sex customs
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Sexualitet -- historia.
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Begär -- historia.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
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Middle East |
| Subject |
Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520938984 |
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0520938984 |
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9781429467438 |
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1429467436 |
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0520904052 |
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9780520904057 |
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