Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 Volume 52

(Part of the Studies on the History of Society and Culture Series)

by Dror Ze'evi

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520245636

ISBN13:9780520245631

Release Date:October 2006

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:242 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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