Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781838605025
,
9781838605049
Series Statement:
Early and Medieval Islamic World Series
Content:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On translation of sexually explicit words -- Part One Discourses on Female Sexuality -- 1 Sexuality, Pleasure and Health -- Background: Islamic medical authors -- Sex differences in Greek and Islamic medical theory -- Seed and reproduction -- Sexual health in Islamic medicine -- Women's sexual health -- Women's sexual pleasure -- Conclusion: Women's health and pleasure -- 2 A World of Pleasure -- Medicine in the Encyclopaedia of Pleasure -- Seed and harmony -- Erotology in the Encyclopaedia of Pleasure -- Women's shahwa and female nature -- Women's expertise in the Encyclopaedia of Pleasure -- Conclusion: Women in an erotic compendium -- 3 Women and Sexual Rights -- Female sexuality and marriage -- Men's rights, women's duties -- Do Women have sexual rights? -- Female seed and purity -- Chaste and lustful: the ideal wife -- Towards women's sexual rights -- Part Two Women's Words and Preferences -- 4 Female Strategies and Verbal Battles -- Women's voices in poetry and prose -- Women's verbal proficiency: concluding remarks -- 5 Sexual Comedy and Women's Bodies -- Battle of the sexes -- The vagina as a poetic motif -- Sexual comedy and female authorship -- Women's bodies in satire and mujūn -- Defaming women: Hubbā al-Madīniyya -- Defaming women: the Abbasid courtesans -- A woman's response: ʿArīb -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Sisters and Lovers -- Female homosexuality and sahq -- Lesbians speaking out -- Lesbian love and comedy -- Why sahq? Medical and social explanations -- Al-Samaw ʾal on sahq -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781838605018
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Myrne, Pernilla, 1968 - Female sexuality in the early medieval Islamic world London : I.B. Tauris, 2020 ISBN 9781838605018
Language:
English
Keywords:
Arabisch
;
Literatur
;
Frau
;
Sexualität
;
Geschichte 900-1000
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781838605049
URL:
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/female-sexuality-in-the-early-medieval-islamic-world-gender-and-sex-in-arabic-literature
