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100 1 $aMassad, Joseph Andoni,$d1963-
245 10 $aDesiring Arabs /$cJoseph A. Massad.
250 $aPaperback ed.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2008, ©2007.
300 $axiv, 453 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-441) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire : the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease : taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion.
520 $a"Among the many shocking violations of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the most notorious was sexual torture. Military personnel justified this abhorrent technique as an effective tool for interrogating Arabs, who are perceived as repressed and especially susceptible to sexual coercion. These abuses laid bare a racist and sexually charged power dynamic at the root of the U.S. conquest of Iraq - a dynamic that reflected centuries of Western assumptions about Arab sexuality. Desiring Arabs uncovers the roots of these attitudes and analyzes the impact of Western ideas - both about sexuality and about Arabs - on Arab intellectual production. Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, Joseph A. Massad instead reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. For instance, he demonstrates how, in the 1980s, the rise of sexual identity politics and human rights activism in the West came to define Arab nationalist, and especially Islamist, responses to sexual desires and practices, and he reveals the implications these reactions have had for contemporary Arabs."--Publisher description.
650 0 $aCivilization, Arab.
650 0 $aArabs$xSexual behavior.
651 0 $aArab countries$xForeign public opinion, Western.
650 7 $aCivilization, Arab.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00862967
650 7 $aPublic opinion, Western.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01354147
651 7 $aArab countries.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01240128
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