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Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse Dror Zeâevi in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500â1900 Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xv + 171 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Producing Desire is an exciting new contribution to the growing discourse on gender and sexuality in Islamic societies. Rather than take the lead from work done in the European context, Dror Zeâevi has demonstrated the need to chart a unique course. Although the author delineates 1500â1900 as the focus of his study, his span is much larger and encompasses medical and legal works dating back to the Abbasid period, some of which are based on earlier works. One might be inclined to question why Zeâevi did not take a narrower focus, but as the work emerges it is clear that views toward sexuality and homoeroticism change and viewing one set of texts or category of texts could prove misleading. Zeâevi marshals an impressive array of sources including medical treatises, legal codes, Sufi poetry, rants against Sufi poetry, literature on dream interpretation, shadow plays, and travelogues. The broad spectrum of Ottoman/ Islamic literature presents a different dynamic than the polarities of male/female, homosexual/ heterosexual found in the Western understanding of gender and
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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