TY - BOOK ID - 77870106 TI - Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 PY - 2006 SN - 0520938984 9786612771910 1282771914 0520904052 9780520938984 9781429467438 1429467436 9780520904057 0520245644 0520245636 9780520245648 9780520245631 9781282771918 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sex customs KW - Desire. KW - Appetency KW - Craving KW - Longing KW - Yearning KW - Emotions KW - Customs, Sex KW - Human beings KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Manners and customs KW - Moral conditions KW - Sex KW - Sex customs -- Middle East. KW - anthropologists. KW - cultural history. KW - eastern societies. KW - foucault. KW - gagnon. KW - gender studies. KW - historians. KW - human nature. KW - islamic influence. KW - laqueur. KW - legal documents. KW - lust. KW - medical texts. KW - men and women. KW - middle east history. KW - middle east. KW - middle eastern societies. KW - morality. KW - nonfiction. KW - ottoman culture. KW - ottoman empire. KW - religious literature. KW - sex. KW - sexual desire. KW - sexual discourse. KW - sexual history. KW - sexual thought. KW - sexuality. KW - shadow theater. KW - travelogues. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870106 AB - This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material-medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues-in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze'evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today. ER -