Professor Aymon Kreil (Ghent University, Belgium), Dr Lucia Sorbera (University of Sydney, Australia), Professor Serena
What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere – emerge...
What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and d...
