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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... sexuality, as that time when discourse about sexuality was 'markedly unitary.”21 More recently, Anna Klosowska has ... sexual acts? What conclusions should be drawn from texts that insert a brief sexually alternative interlude only to ...
... alternative sexualities in medieval French literary writings. My reading will thus scrutinize anew the vocabulary of sexual desire and sexual practice in Old French texts in order to better understand the textual strategies at play in ...
... sex desire and same-sex sexuality among women were more prevalent that heretofore recognized. It thus argues in favor of a continuity rather than a rupture between medieval and modern concep— tions of alternative sexualities. The use of ...
... sexual ideology, and hence in uncovering unsuspected alternative sexual meanings in medieval texts. They have begun to demonstrate that “nonconforming female subcultures, like other subaltern groups, developed alternative, carefully ...
... sexual orientation might have been, the debate over her poetry reveals the extent to which female expressions of ... alternative attachments. My reading is cross—cultural because, as I will show, expressions of same-sex love in Old ...
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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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