TY - BOOK ID - 77874042 TI - Desiring Arabs PY - 2008 SN - 128196591X 9786611965914 0226509605 9780226509600 9780226509587 0226509583 6611965912 0226509591 9780226509594 PB - Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press, DB - UniCat KW - Civilization, Arab. KW - Arabs KW - Ethnology KW - Semites KW - Arab civilization KW - Civilization, Semitic KW - Islamic civilization KW - Sexual behavior. KW - Arab countries KW - Arab world KW - Arabic countries KW - Arabic-speaking states KW - Islamic countries KW - Middle East KW - Foreign public opinion, Western. KW - Civilization, Arab KW - #SBIB:316.7C160 KW - #SBIB:39A77 KW - Sexual behavior KW - Cultuursociologie: contact tussen culturen KW - Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten KW - Sociology of culture KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Sociology of literature KW - Arab states KW - Sexology KW - History KW - Public opinion, Western. KW - Arab countries. KW - arab, middle east, sexual, sexuality, attraction, desire, western, civilization, culture, cultural, academic, scholarly, research, myth, bias, prejudice, sex, prude, 19th, 20th, 21st, century, writing, attitude, history, historical, kink, study, thesis, memory, recall, sin, crime, disease, gay, lesbian, lgbtq, queer, orientation, deviant. KW - Attitudes KW - Sexuality KW - Book KW - Imaging UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874042 AB - "Among the many shocking violations of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the most notorious was sexual torture. Military personnel justified this abhorrent technique as an effective tool for interrogating Arabs, who are perceived as repressed and especially susceptible to sexual coercion. These abuses laid bare a racist and sexually charged power dynamic at the root of the U.S. conquest of Iraq - a dynamic that reflected centuries of Western assumptions about Arab sexuality. Desiring Arabs uncovers the roots of these attitudes and analyzes the impact of Western ideas - both about sexuality and about Arabs - on Arab intellectual production. Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, Joseph A. Massad instead reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. For instance, he demonstrates how, in the 1980s, the rise of sexual identity politics and human rights activism in the West came to define Arab nationalist, and especially Islamist, responses to sexual desires and practices, and he reveals the implications these reactions have had for contemporary Arabs."--Publisher description. ER -