Sexuality in the Arab world / edited by Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon. - 312 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Living with dissonant sexual codes / Samir Khalaf -- States, cultures, colonies and globalization: a story of sex research / John H. Gagnon -- Sexuality, health and colonialism in postwar 1860 Beirut / Jens Hanssen -- Like pure gold: sexuality and honour amongst Lebanese emigrants, 1890-1920 / Akram F. Khater -- Migration, marginalized masculinity and dephallicization: a Lebanese villager's experience / Ghassan Hage -- Sexuality and the servant: an exploration of Arab images of the sexuality of domestic maids living in the household / Ray Jureidini -- Chastity capital: hierarchy and distinction in Damascus / Christa Salamandra -- In the eye of which beholder? Beauty, body image and sexuality in contemporary Tunisia / Angel M. Foster -- Breaking the silence: what AUB students really think about sex / Roseanne Saad Khalaf -- Creating queer space in Beirut / Sofian Merabet -- Transition Beirut: gay identities, lived realties / Jared McCormick -- Sacred prey and fatal mirror: the female body written by Amjad Nasir and 'Abduh Wazin / As'ad E. Khairallah -- Sexuality, fantasy and violence in Lebanon's postwar novel / Maher Jarrar -- Postscript and acknowledgments / Samir Khalaf.

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Sex--Arab countries
Man-woman relationships--Arab countries

HQ18.A65 / S49 2006

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