Deconstructing sexuality in the Middle East
Subtitle: challenges and discourses
By: edited by Pinar İlkkaracan.
Contributors: İlkkaracan, Pınar.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780754672357
Subjects: Sex -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Sex -- Social aspects -- Middle East; Sex role -- Middle East
Description: The main concern of this volume is to explore the contemporary political and social dynamics pertaining to sexuality in the Middle East. The chapters illustrate that discourses, debates and challenges that surround sexuality are complex, and cannot be reduced to a single underlying factor, be it religion, culture, feminism - or secularism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.