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Author Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed, 1979-2013, author.

Title Medicine and morality in Egypt : gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Sherry Sayed Gadelrab
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Series Library of Middle East history ; 49
Library of Middle East history ; v. 49.
Contents Cover; Author Bio; Title; Copyright ; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter 1. Discourses on sex differences inmedieval scholarly islamic thought; Chapter 2. Professional medical discourse on sex differences and sexuality in egypt, 1827-1928; Chapter 3. Science, medicine and debates on the woman question; Chapter 4. The fatwa andits role in constructingsexual knowledge; Chapter 5. Sexual fears: public discourses on prostitutes andprostitution in egypt, 1828-1928; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualisations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested men's innate 'active' sexuality as opposed to women's more 'passive' characteristics, interpreting the differences in female and male bodies to correspond to this hierarchy. Through examining the interconnection of medical, legal, religious and moral discourses on sexual behaviour, Gadelrab highlights the association between sex, sexuality and the creation and recreation of the concept of gender at this crucial moment in the development of Egyptian society. By analysing the debates at the time surrounding science, medicine, morality, modernity and sexuality, she paints a nuanced picture of the Egyptian understanding and manipulation of the concepts of sex and gender."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Medical ethics -- Egypt
Social medicine -- Egypt -- History
Medicine -- History.
Attitude to Health -- ethnology
Health Behavior -- ethnology
Women -- history
History of Medicine
Ethics, Medical -- history
Social Medicine -- history
history of medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medical ethics
Medicine
Social medicine
Women in medicine
Ethik
Fetwa
Frau
Geschlechtsunterschied
Islam
Medizin
Sexualität
Sexualverhalten
SUBJECT Egypt
Subject Egypt
Ägypten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1786739755
9781786739759
9780857737724
0857737724
9781350987173
1350987174