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

by Dror Ze'evi

Book Overview

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"