Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674032047 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Kathryn Babayan is Assistant Professor of Iranian History and Culture at the University of Michigan.Afsaneh Najmabadi is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Harvard University.Brad Epps is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Kathryn Babayan is Assistant Professor of Iranian History and Culture at the University of Michigan.Afsaneh Najmabadi is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Harvard University.Brad Epps is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Sara said Interesting. This book is a collection of essays by several different authors, often referring to each other. The book's expressed intent is to queer Islamic history, or at least offer a queer perspective in a region not often associated with homoeroticism. Unfortunately, several of the pieces do not make a cogent argument except to state examples of homosexual relationships in the Islamic past while other pieces work off one or two passages from a larger story to describe the presence of homosexuality (and different articulations of homosexuality in t
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 the modern).. 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,