Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature

Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe

NYU Press, 1997 - Social Science - 331 pages

Financial advisors, poker players, hedge fund traders, fund-raisers, sports agents, credit counselors and commissioned salespeople all deal with one central concern in their jobs: money. In Money at Work, Kevin Delaney explores how we think about money and, particularly, how our jobs influence that thinking. By spotlighting people for whom money is the focus of their work, Delaney illuminates how the daily practices experienced in different jobs create distinct ways of thinking and talking about money and how occupations and their work cultures carry important symbolic, material, and practical messages about money.

Delaney takes us deep inside the cultures of these ‘moneyed’ workers, using both interviews and first-hand observations of many of these occupations.  From hedge fund trading rooms in New York, to poker players at work in Las Vegas casinos, to a “Christian money retreat” in a monastery in rural Pennsylvania, Delaney illustrates how the underlying economic conditions of various occupations and careers produce what he calls “money cultures,” or ways of understanding the meaning of money, which in turn shape one’s economic outlook. Key to this is how some professionals, such as debt counselors, think very differently than say poker players in their regard to money—Delaney argues that it is the structure of these professions themselves that in turn influences monetary attitudes. Fundamentally, Money at Work shows that what people do for a living has a profound effect on how people conceive of money both at work and in their home lives, making clear the connections between the economic and the social, shedding light on some of our most basic values. At a time when conversations about money are increasingly important, Delaney shows that we do not merely learn our attitudes toward money in childhood, but we also learn important money lessons from the work that we do.

What people are saying

Review: Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

User Review  - D. Morgenstern - Goodreads

More and more research. My! You may have an impression I am going to write about a homoromance in an Islamic culture.

Review: Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

User Review  - Katrina - Goodreads

Great topic but the treatment fell short. Too much dryly written history, not enough contemporary studies nor theory. No unification of the collected essays.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• Precursors of Islamic Male Homosexualities: 55
• Muhammad and Male Homosexuality: 87
• WomanWoman Love in Islamic Societies: 97
• Corporealizing Medieval Persian and Turkish Tropes: 132
• Male Love and Islamic Law in Arab Spain: 142
• Male Homosexuality Inheritance Rules: 161
• Homosexuality among Slave Elites in Ottoman Turkey: 174
• Stephen O Murray: 187
• Some NineteenthCentury Reports: 204
• GenderDefined Homosexual Roles: 222
• Institutionalized GenderCrossing in Southern Iraq: 233
• The Sohari Kfrflmtfi: 244
• Male Actresses in Islamic Parts of Indonesia and: 256
• Two Baluchi Buggas a Sindhi Zenana: 262
• NotSoGay Life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s: 275
• Two Islamic AIDS Education Organizations: 297
• Appendix: 321

About the author

Stephen O. Murray is a comparative sociologist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of American Gay, Latin American Male Homosexualities, Oceanic Homosexualities, and a half dozen other books.

Will Roscoe is the award-winning author of The Zuni Man/Womanand Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book and the editor of Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology and Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder by Harry Hay.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature
• Editors: Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: NYU Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0814774687, 9780814774687
• Length: 331 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Gay Studies