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Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Stephen O Murray
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Description for Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Paperback. Editor(s): Roscoe, Will; Murray, Stephen O. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; JFSK1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World
The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.
The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814774687
SKU
V9780814774687
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99-50
About Stephen O Murray
Will Roscoe is the award-winning author of The Zuni Man/Womanand Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book and the editor of Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology and Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder by Harry Hay. Stephen O. Murray is a comparative sociologist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of ... Read more
Reviews for Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Islamic Homosexualities clearly suceeds...a valuable addition to any library or interested reader's bookshelf.
Journal of Homosexuality
A fascinating and eye-opening book about a topic much hinted at but little considered systematically. The authors not only have the benefit of knowing homosexuality in many other societies but are well grounded in matters Islamic.
Middle East Quarterly
Journal of Homosexuality
A fascinating and eye-opening book about a topic much hinted at but little considered systematically. The authors not only have the benefit of knowing homosexuality in many other societies but are well grounded in matters Islamic.
Middle East Quarterly