Search Results for sex

...Zeina G. Halabi What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin . al-Daif Rashid and Helfer Joachim . Translated by Seigneurie Ken and Schmidt Gary . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 266 pages. ISBN 9780292763104. Copyright © 2018 by the Association...

...Jarrod Hayes Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 When asked to write a preface for this themed issue, “Decolonizing Sex and Sexuality,” I thought right away of the Moroccan writer, thinker, and sociologist Abdelkebir Khatibi ( 1983 , 47), who in Maghreb...

... East Women’s Studies 2013 54  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  9:1 SEX, MARRIAGE, AND EROTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC ADVICE LITERATURE Hina Azam mn...

...Liat Kozma Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World . El Feki Shereen . London : Chatto and Windus , 2013 . 368 pages. isbn 0701183160. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Reading Sex and the Citadel brought back...

...Asli Zengin Abstract This article is about how sex, gender, and sexuality are governed in Turkey at the intersection of intimate contact and mandated encounters with medicolegal institutions and the bodies of sex/gender transgressive people. To explore this question, it brings two institutional...

...Najwa al-Qattan “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo , Semerdjian Elyse . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . 247 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3173-6 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...

...Katja Žvan Elliott Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex . Osire Glacier . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 . ix + 193 pages. isbn 9783319532851. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Osire...

...Seçil Dağtaş Sex and Secularism . Joan Wallach Scott . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . 256 pages. isbn 9780691160641 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 It is commonplace in contemporary political discourses...

...Eirini Avramopoulou [email protected] The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality . Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Frank G. Karioris , eds. Lanham, MD : Lexington , 2020 . vii + 215 pages. isbn 9781793601247. Copyright ©...

...Diego Garcia Rodriguez [email protected] Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day Aymon Kreil , Lucia Sorbera , and Serena Tolino , eds. London : Tauris , 2021 264 pages. isbn 9781838604080...

... of psychological and psychiatric approaches practiced at different centers and clinics. She also presents differing religious opinions that seek to justify the legalization of sex reassignment surgery. For instance, in chapter 5 Najmabadi recounts her fascinating discussion with Ayatollah Kariminia, one...

... and flexibility regarding nonbinary sex embodiments. This discourse widely recognized three to five sexual categories, including khuntha mushkil , a “medial sex” with intersex physical characteristics difficult to categorize as predominantly male or female. Jurists and physicians treated such persons...

...Rodney Collins This ethnographic essay reflects research conducted in urban Tunisia among two distinct, yet interrelated, groups of young “men who have sex with men” (MSMs). Theoretically, the essay focuses on the politics of identity categories, how these categories travel, and the intersections...

... conceptions of risk among urban Iranian women are not well understood. Due to the IRI’s strict ban on premarital sex, the distribution of educational information related to the health risks of sexual activity is extremely low, while the few existing sexual education programs are reserved for couples who...

... to online fatwa sites were more concerned about whether EC would facilitate illicit sex and the health risks of contraceptives. Only English-language sites discussed the morality of pharmacists providing EC. These websites and fatwas reveal different visions of Muslims’ relationships with technology...

... androgyny,” is both an innovation and a restoration. Many ancient religious and mystic texts from across the world held very similar views, before patriarchy prevailed and history became dominated by the voice of the few, turning sex/gender into a privilege or a limitation. The Saadawian androgyny...

...Aymon Kreil Abstract This article addresses multiple paths of desire in Egypt. To date, research has mainly focused on the family as the realm of intimacy. To understand desire, it is important to take into account other contexts that contribute to shaping experience. Conversations about sex among...

..., this paper explores the conflation of discourses on trafficking, migration, and sex work through migrants’ narratives. The study is organized around three central questions: 1) What are the social, economic, and political circumstances and structures that make Dubai a major migration and trafficking...

...Camila Pastor de Maria Campos Abstract Analyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Nations reports, and mandate legal literature, this article tracks the circulation and regulation of mobile women engaging in performance and sex work in French...