
Ebook: Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations
Author: Samar Habib
- Tags: History, Gay & Lesbian, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Archaeology, Essays, Historical Geography, Historical Maps, Historiography, Reference, Study & Teaching, History, Egypt, Middle East, History, Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Islam, Hadith, History, Law, Mecca, Muhammed, Quran, Rituals & Practice, Shi’ism, Sufism, Sunnism, Theology, Women in Islam, Religion & Spirituality, Gender & Sexuality, Religious Studies, Religion & Spirituality, Gay & Lesbian, Specific Demographics, Social Sci
- Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This 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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