Female homosexuality in the Middle East
Subtitle: histories and representations
By: Samar Habib.
Series: Routledge research in gender and society -- 13
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780415956734
Subjects: Lesbianism -- Middle East; Lesbianism -- Islamic countries; Homosexuality -- Middle East; Lesbianism in literature; Lesbianism in motion pictures; Arabic literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Contemporary views of female homosexuality in the Middle East; title: Constructing and deconstructing sexuality : new paradigms for "gay" historiography; title: An overview of medieval literature concerning female homosexuality; title: A close reading of Ahmad ibn Yusuf Tifashi's Nuzhat al albab : toward re-envisioning the Islamic Middle East; title: Contemporary representations of female homosexuality in Arabic literature and criticism; title: Some like it luke-warm : a brief history of the representation of (homo)sexuality in Egyptian film; title: Conclusion: Homosexuals, the people of Lot, and the future of Arabic homosexuality.