02796nam 2200649 a 450 991045445580332120200520144314.01-281-96591-X97866119659140-226-50960-510.7208/9780226509600(CKB)1000000000578574(EBL)408229(OCoLC)476228077(SSID)ssj0000137504(PQKBManifestationID)11150326(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000137504(PQKBWorkID)10087989(PQKB)11289817(MiAaPQ)EBC408229(DE-B1597)523337(OCoLC)1058681178(DE-B1597)9780226509600(Au-PeEL)EBL408229(CaPaEBR)ebr10266042(CaONFJC)MIL196591(EXLCZ)99100000000057857420061129d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesiring Arabs[electronic resource] /Joseph A. MassadChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (469 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-50958-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-441) and indexes.Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing frCivilization, ArabArabsSexual behaviorArab countriesForeign public opinion, WesternElectronic books.Civilization, Arab.ArabsSexual behavior.306.70917/4927MS 2850rvkMassad Joseph Andoni1963-1049433MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454455803321Desiring Arabs2478428UNINA