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Title: Female Homosexuality in the Middle East
Author : Samar Habib
Release Date : January 06, 2012
Genre: Middle East,Books,History,Nonfiction,Social Science,Religion & Spirituality,Islam,Sociology,
Pages : * pages
Size : 3815 KB

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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 is no longer permissive of a variety of sexual behaviours.

Habib also engages with recent "gay" historiography in the West and challenges institutionalized constructionist notions of sexuality.