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    Desiring Arabs (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226509600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (469 pages)
    DDC: 306.70917/4927
    RVK:
    EH 5350
    RVK:
    MS 2850
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Islambild ; Araberbild ; Geschlechterforschung ; Homosexualität ; Westliche Welt
    Abstract: 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, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad 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.             A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.   "A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work."-Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report   "In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present."-Financial Times.
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    Worries of the Heart : Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226554228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (274 pages)
    DDC: 306.88/30967628
    RVK:
    LB 41546
    RVK:
    MS 1930
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Witwe ; Kenia
    Abstract: Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community.             Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. Yet despite their numbers, widows and their families exist at the margins of society, and their lives act as a barometer for the harsh realities of rural Kenya. Mutongi here argues that widows survive by publicly airing their social, economic, and political problems, their "worries of the heart." Initially aimed at the men in their community, and then their colonial rulers, this strategy changed after independence as widows increasingly invoked the language of citizenship to demand their rights from the new leaders of Kenya-leaders whose failure to meet the needs of ordinary citizens has led to deep disenchantment and altered Kenyans' view of their colonial past. An innovative blend of ethnography and historical research, Worries of the Heart is a poignant narrative rich with insights into postcolonial Africa.
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    Online Resource
    Desiring Arabs (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226509600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (469 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Desiring Arabs
    Parallel Title: Print version Desiring Arabs
    DDC: 306.709174927
    RVK:
    MS 2850
    RVK:
    MS 2870
    Keywords: Arabs ; Civilization, Arab ; Arabs ; Sexual behavior ; Arab countries ; Foreign public opinion, Western ; Electronic books ; Araber Sexualität ; Arabische Staaten ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Westliche Welt ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Anxiety in Civilization; 2 Remembrances of Desires Past; 3 Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World; 4 Sin, Crimes, and Disease: Taxonomies of Desires Present; 5 Deviant Fictions; 6 The Truth of Fictional Desires; Conclusion; Works Cited; Name Index; Subject Index
    Abstract: 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, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad 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. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. "A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work."-Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report "In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present."-Financial Times
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