LEADER 03707nam 22006854a 450 001 9910824563403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93898-4 010 $a9786612771910 010 $a1-282-77191-4 010 $a0-520-90405-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938984 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354368 035 $a(EBL)291354 035 $a(OCoLC)476049772 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000228258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201857 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000228258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10148634 035 $a(PQKB)10506648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC291354 035 $a(DE-B1597)519478 035 $a(OCoLC)123768865 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938984 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL291354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170966 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277191 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354368 100 $a20050512d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProducing desire $echanging sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 /$fDror Ze'evi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 225 1 $aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v52 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24564-4 311 $a0-520-24563-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index. 327 $aThe body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharia and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material-medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues-in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze'evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today. 410 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v52. 606 $aSex customs$zMiddle East 606 $aDesire 615 0$aSex customs 615 0$aDesire. 676 $a306.7/0956/0903 686 $a15.75$2bcl 700 $aZeevi$b Dror$f1953-$01477003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824563403321 996 $aProducing desire$94052626 997 $aUNINA