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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| 100 | 1 | |a Massad, Joseph Andoni, |d 1963- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Desiring Arabs / |c Joseph A. Massad. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-441) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index. | |
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 520 | |a 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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| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization, Arab. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Arabs |x Sexual behavior. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arab countries |x Foreign public opinion, Western. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a PSYCHOLOGY |x Human Sexuality. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SELF-HELP |x Sexual Instruction. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Civilization, Arab |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Public opinion, Western |2 fast | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Arab countries |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Araber |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Einstellung |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Sexualität |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Öffentliche Meinung |2 gnd | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Westliche Welt |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Seksuele ethiek. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Arabieren. |2 gtt |
| 651 | 7 | |a Araber. |2 swd | |
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