Sex and the citadel
Subtitle: intimate life in a changing Arab world
By: Shereen El Feki
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780701183165; 9781409019916
Subjects: Sex; Islam; Social life and customs; Religion and Sex; Manners and customs
Description: If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home - in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative and insightful account of a highly sensitive, and still largely secret, aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion, tradition, politics, economics and culture, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region's complex social landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shifting positions; title: Desperate housewives; title: Sex and the single Arab; title: Facts of life; title: Sex for sale; title: Dare to be different; title: Come the revolution.