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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... lesbian practices in medieval textuality. The absence of a name, rather than meaning the absence of lesbianism, might indicate that lesbianism was constructed publicly as silent and nameless (this is precisely what the medieval jurists ...
... lesbian love and desire. My reading has benefited from Judith Bennett's concept of “lesbian'like,” which has proved to be especially helpful in expanding the scholarly search for “real life” lesbians in the Midde Ages.33 Because ...
... lesbian, it can certainly be considered “lesbian-like.” Throughout this study, and while recognizing the historicity of the notions of sexual identity and gender politics, I have opted for the use of the term “lesbian” for several ...
... lesbian practices has focused primarily on three categories of texts:58 ' The majority of this scholarship has ... lesbian poet. Her only poem has thus generated a heated debate between critics who consider it to be a valuable document ...
... lesbian desire from the Islamicate tradition. As a matter of fact, my thesis in Crossing Borders is that Old French critical discourses on lesbianism have been limited because they have been made without historical contextualization. I ...
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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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