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FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST IBD

ROUTLEDGE
07 / 2007
9780415956734
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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 integrityá- 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.

PVP
302,15