num_pages: 216
description: This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement of these with a new religious orthodoxy that is no longer permissive of a variety of sexual behaviours. Habib also engages with recent "gay" historiography in the West and challenges institutionalized constructionist notions of sexuality.
language: English
title: Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations
titlecomplete: Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
genres: Spirituality, History, Religion, Islam, Queer, Nonfiction, LGBT
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Routledge