Producing desire
Subtitle: changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900
By: Dror Ze'evi.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Sex customs -- Middle East; Desire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy; title: Regulating desire: shariʻa and kanun in the Ottoman Middle East; title: Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths; title: Dream interpretation and the subconscious; title: Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script; title: The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts; title: Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.