Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 223 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520245648
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0520245636
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0520245644
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9780520245631
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture 52
Content:
This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues--in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundar
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on the Transliteration of Arabic and Turkish; Introduction: Sex as Script; 1. The Body Sexual: Medicine and Physiognomy; 2. Regulating Desire: Shari ªa and Kanun; 3. Morality Wars: Orthodoxy, Sufism, and Beardless Youths; 4. Dream Interpretation and the Unconscious; 5. Boys in the Hood: Shadow Theater as a SexualCounter-Script; 6. The View from Without: Sexuality in Travel Accounts; Conclusion: Modernity and Sexual Discourse; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520245631
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Producing Desire : Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900
Language:
English
