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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East : Histories and Representations
by Samar Habib
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Overview
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 challenges institutionalized constructionist notions of sexuality.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415806039
- ISBN-10: 0415806038
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: March 2009
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.48 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 212
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