Islamicate Sexualities : Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire

by BABAYAN KATHRYN (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780674032040
• ISBN10: 0674032047
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

"Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desires explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality. Concerned with the dynamic interplay between cultural constructions of gender and sexuality, the anthology moves across disciplinary fields, integrating literary criticism with social and cultural history, and establishes a dialogue among historians (Kathryn Babayan, Frederic Lagrange, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Everett Rowson), comparative literary scholars (Sahar Amer and Leyla Rouhi), and critical theorists of sexualities (Valerie Traub, Brad Epps, and Dina Al-Kassim). As a whole, the anthology challenges Middle Eastern Studies with questions that have arisen in recent studies of sexualities, bringing into conversation Euro-American scholarship of sexuality with that of scholars engaged in studies of sexualities across a vast cultural (Iberian, Arabic, and Iranian) and temporal field (from the tenth century to the medieval and modern)."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

The past is a foreign country? : the times and spaces of Islamicate sexuality studies	p. 1
A handsome boy among those barbarous Turks : Cervantes's Muslims and the art and science of desire	p. 41
Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures	p. 72
Comparison, competition, and cross-dressing : cross-cultural analysis in a contested world	p. 114
The obscenity of the vizier	p. 161
Homoerotic liaisons among the Mamluk elite in late medieval Egypt and Syria	p. 204
"In spirit we ate each other's sorrow" : female companionship in seventeenth-century Safavi Iran	p. 239
Types, acts, or what? : regulation of sexuality in nineteenth-century Iran	p. 275
Sexual epistemologies, East in West	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 341
About the authors	p. 365
Index	p. 369
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