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Author Habib, Samar

Title Female Homosexuality in the Middle East : Histories and Representations
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Routledge research in gender and society.
Contents Cover; Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Transliteration legend; Abbreviations; PART I Introducing studies on female homosexuality and contemporary critical theory; 1 Introduction: Contemporary views of female homosexuality in the Middle East; 2 Constructing and deconstructing sexuality: New paradigms for "gay" historiography; Part II The history and representation of female homosexuality in the Middle Ages; 3 An overview of Medieval literature concerning female homosexuality
4 A close reading of Ahmad Ibn Yusuf Tifashi's Nuzhat al-Albab: Toward re-envisioning the Islamic Middle EastPart III The history and representation of female homosexuality in the contemporary Middle East; 5 Contemporary representations of female homosexuality in Arabic literature and criticism; 6 Some like it luke-warm: A brief history of the representation of (homo)sexuality in Egyptian film; Part IV Conclusion and references; 7 Homosexuals, the people of Lot and the future of Arabic homosexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement of these with a new religious orthodoxy that is no longer permissive of a variety of sexual behaviours. Habib also engages with recent ""gay"" historiography in the West and chal
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Subject Lesbianism -- Middle East
Lesbianism -- Islamic countries
Homosexuality -- Middle East
Lesbianism in literature.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Arabic literature -- History and criticism
Arabic literature
Homosexuality
Lesbianism
Lesbianism in literature
Lesbianism in motion pictures
Islamic countries
Middle East
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135910099
113591009X