Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. mar. 2013 - 264 strani Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. |
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... sexual practices. Building uponthese groundbreaking studies, Crossing Borders investigates theheretofore unrecognizedrole thatArabic eroticism has played in the construction of alternative sexualities inOld French literary texts.My ...
... gender and fe— male same—sex sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions from 1000 to 1500. My goals in writing this book are fourfold: to bring together two literatures and cultural traditions that are too often ...
... traditions, that French narrators named and depicted what remained unspeakable throughout the European Middle Ages ... sexual practices. Each of the French texts under investigation will be interpreted both horizontally and verticallyZ ...
... Sex Love Between Women The silence of the silenced is filled hy the speech of those who have it and thefact of the silence is fbi'gotten. —Catharine MacKinnon SAME-SEX SEXUAL PRACTICES between women in the medieval West were perceived ...
... sexual practices.13 The scholarly neglect of medieval lesbianism has been so profound that in her biography of a sixteenth-century Italian nun, Judith Brown observed: “In light of the knowledge that Europeans had about the possibility ...
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Crossing Linguistic Borders Etienne de Fougèress Livre des Manières and Arabic Erotic Treatises | 29 |
Crossing Sartorial Lines Female SameSex Marriage in Yde et Olive and The Story of Qamar alZaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand ... | 50 |
Crossing the Lines of Friendship Jean Renarts Escoufle Saracen Silk and Intercultural Encounters | 88 |
Crossing Social and Cultural Borders Jean Renarts Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate World | 121 |
Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 217 |
Index | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Omejen predogled - 2008 |
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