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Producing desire [electronic resource] : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.

By: Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture: 52.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006Description: xv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Sex customs -- Middle East | DesireGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.7/0956/0903 Other classification: 15.75 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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306.7/0956/0903 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.