Book Summary
This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement of these with a new religious orthodoxy that is no longer permissive of a variety of sexual behaviours. Habib also engages with recent "gay" historiography in the West and challenges institutionalized constructionist notions of sexuality.
Book Details
| Book Name | Female Homosexuality In The Middle East: Histories And Representations |
| Author | Samar Habib |
| Publisher | Routledge (Jul 2007) |
| ISBN | 9780415956734 |
| Pages | 195 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 6632 |
