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Medicine and Morality in Egypt - Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Medicine and Morality in Egypt - Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
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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.
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