Desiring Arabs
by Joseph A. Massad
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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, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented show more their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Desiring Arabs
- Original publication date
- 2007
- Important places
- Arab countries
- Disambiguation notice
- 2007 edition: Desiring Arabs / Joseph A. Massad
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 306.70917 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations Biography And History
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- DS36.77 .M38 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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