Desiring Arabs [Audiobook] download free by Joseph A. Massad
- Listen audiobook: Desiring Arabs
- Author: Joseph A. Massad
- Release date: 2008/2/10
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780226509594
- Rating: 8.1 of 10
- Votes: 501
- Review by: Payton Nowak
- Review rating: 9.31 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 5H55M22S in 256 kbps (94.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AU, FLAC, MP4, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, MP3 (compression 7Z, RAR, TAR, GZ, ZIP, CBR)
- Total pages original book: 472
- Includes a PDF summary of 48 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M51S (9.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Sexual Behaviour, Social & Cultural History, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Middle Eastern History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.34 USD
- Dimensions: 165x230x30.48mm
- Weight: 630g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: United States
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