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Producing desire
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ISBN: 0520938984 9786612771910 1282771914 0520904052 9780520938984 9781429467438 1429467436 9780520904057 0520245644 0520245636 9780520245648 9780520245631 9781282771918 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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.

An Ottoman century
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ISBN: 1438424752 0585043450 9780585043456 9780791429150 0791429156 9780791429167 0791429164 9781438424750 0791429156 0791429164 9781438424750 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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The thirty-year genocide
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ISBN: 9780674240070 0674240081 0674240073 9780674916456 067491645X 9780674240087 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.

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