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200 10$aDesiring Arabs /$fJoseph A. Massad
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (469 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-226-50958-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 419-441) and indexes.
327   $aIntroduction -- 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.
330   $aSexual 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 fr
606   $aCivilization, Arab
606   $aArabs$xSexual behavior
607   $aArab countries$xForeign public opinion, Western
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615  0$aArabs$xSexual behavior.
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