Desiring Arabs / Joseph A. Massad.
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudis...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 453 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-441) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780226509600 0226509605 9786611965914 6611965912 |
| Language: | English. |