...Mona L. Russell Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 Dror Ze'evi Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xv + 171 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Producing Desire...

... and control sexuality” (65). The Sharia Changing Sexual Discourse contained a certain amount of rigidity and dif- in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 ficulty of indictment; meanwhile, throughqanun Dror Ze’evi the state could set...

...: Power and the Production of History . Boston : Beacon , 1995 . Tucker Judith . Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . Woolf Virginia . A Room of One's Own . New York : Harcourt, Brace , 1929 . Ze'evi Dror...

... performances that construct one as Ze’evi, in his study of Muslim women in seven- both a woman and a virgin. In other words, a teenth-century Jerusalem court cases, argues that woman’s conduct, her interactions with women and issues related to women’s bodies and sexuality did men, her movement in public...

... reader 22. As Dror Ze’evi notes, a court register is a cultural (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); and 24. While this is especially true for the indexes to Ma- product and therefore an end in itself, not merely a Susan Hirsch, Pronouncing and Preserving: Gender jlis al-Ahkam, I have...

... bibliografico” (“Arab Eroticism: Biblio- En Şuh Hikâyeler’” (“The Most Joyous, Most Saucy Sto- 81 – 103; and Dror Ze’evi, Producing Desire: Chang- graphic Sketch Rivista degli Studi Orientali, no. 68 ries” from Bin Bir Buse Tarih ve Toplum 35, no. 208 ing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, (1994...