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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 their own sexual desires. To this end, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization.A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Desiring Arabs
• Author: Joseph A. Massad
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 472
• EAN: 9780226509587
• ID: 04547277
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 844 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 157 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. June 2007

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