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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... specific, becomes a bit tedious and cumbersome stylistically. More important, such phrases end up maintain— ing medieval lesbians in othered categories of time and culture. Crossing Bor— olers demonstrates however that same-sex desire ...
... specific terminology to denote lesbianism in medieval Europe seems to have compromised the production of scholarship about samesex desire among women, the existence of the label sa/aq and sahiqa (Arabic words for lesbianism and lesbian ...
... specific treatment, namely, rubbing. Such views were standard and were repeated from one century to the next, from one literary treatise on sexualities to the other.66 If etymologically and medically, sahq denotes a behavior, culturally ...
... specific punishment for homosexuals, Islamic jurisprudence tended to analogize (qiyas) homosexuality to adultery for the purposes of punishing homo— sexual acts. Moreover, as liwat was specifically defined as anal penetration by a penis ...
... specific problem of the Arab world because of its contemporary political and social restrictions; it manifests itself also in the West, though under a different guise. Similarly to the Encyclopedia of Pleasure, the English translation ...
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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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