Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.
2006
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Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
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©2006
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xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 52.
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The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy
Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun
Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths
Dream interpretation and the unconscious
Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script
The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts
Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse
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Index.
Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun
Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths
Dream interpretation and the unconscious
Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script
The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts
Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0520245644 cloth alkaline paper
0520245636 paperback alkaline paper
9780520245648 cloth alkaline paper
9780520245631 paperback alkaline paper
0520245636 paperback alkaline paper
9780520245648 cloth alkaline paper
9780520245631 paperback alkaline paper
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