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Sinister Intent
(Paperback)
Linda S Dowling; Contributions by Juliette Lachemeier; Cover design or artwork by Christian Hildenbrand
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What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people
throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This
book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection
of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces
and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them
emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people
constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and
their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political
meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere - emerge
from very specific social and historical contexts. The first part
of the book examines how people constructed, discussed and
challenged sexual norms from the Abbasid to the Ottoman period. The
second part looks at literary and cinematic Arab cultural
production as a site for the construction and transgression of
gender norms. The third part builds on feminist historiography and
social anthropology to question simplistic dichotomies and
binaries. Each of the contributions shows how understanding of
sexualities and the subjectivities that evolve from them are rooted
in the mutually-constitutive relationships between gender and
political power. In identifying the plurality of discourses on
desires, the book goes beyond the dichotomy of norm and
transgression to glimpse what different sexual norms have meant at
different times across the Middle East.
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