Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Text -- Introduction The Many Names of Desire: On the Study of Sexual Practices, Norms and Binaries in the Middle East Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino -- Part I Who's Who: Beyond the Gender Binary -- Chapter 1 Locating Discourses on the Gender Binary (and Beyond) in Pre-modern Islamicate Societies Serena Tolino -- Chapter 2 Illusions of Androgyny: Cross-dressing Women (Ghulāmiyyāt) in Abbasid Society Johannes Thomann
Chapter 3 Contesting Masculinity in Pre-modern Arab Societies: Intoxication, Desire and Antinomian Mysticism Danilo Marino -- Chapter 4 Three Genders, Two Sexualities: The Evidence of Ottoman Erotic Terminology İrvin Cemil Schick -- Part II Subverting the Sexual Norm in Modern ARAB Cultural Productions -- Chapter 5 Eros and Etiquette: Reflections on the Ban of a Central Theme in Nineteenth-Century Arab Writings Nadia Al-Bagdadi -- Chapter 6 Women's Literature as Counter-Narrative in Baʿthist Iraq? Achim Rohde
Chapter 7 Framing the Closet: Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema in the 1970s Koen M. Van Eynde -- Part III Sexuality, Power and Resilience in the Middle East and North Africa Today -- Chapter 8 Living Archives of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement: The Political Biography of Aida Seif al-Dawla -- Chapter 9 Sex Work in Tangier and the Emergence of New Youthful Subjectivities Mériam Cheikh -- Chapter 10 The Straight Story: Challenging Heteronormativity in Beirut -- Chapter 11 Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity Nijmi Edres -- Index
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9781838604103
Sex and desire in Muslim cultures.
9781838604080
Desire in motion pictures.
Desire-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
Islam-- History.
Islamic literature, Arabic-- History and criticism.
Motion pictures-- Islamic countries-- History.
Sex customs-- Islamic countries.
Sex in literature.
Sex in motion pictures.
Sex-- Islamic countries, Case studies.
Sex-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
Women-- Islamic countries-- Social conditions, Case studies.
Cinéma-- Pays musulmans-- Histoire.
Désir-- Aspect religieux-- Islam.
Désir au cinéma.
Femmes-- Pays musulmans-- Conditions sociales, Études de cas.
Islam-- Histoire.
Littérature islamique arabe-- Histoire et critique.