Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and RepresentationsThis 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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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations Samar Habib Limited preview - 2012 |
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations Samar Habib Limited preview - 2007 |
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