Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations

by Samar Habib

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415806038
• ISBN13: 9780415806039
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"