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Item Description:The past is a foreign country? : the times and spaces of islamicate sexuality studies / Valerie Traub -- A handsome boy among those barbarous Turks : Cervantes's Muslims and the art and science of desire / Leyla Rouhi -- Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer -- Comparison, competition, and cross-dressing : cross-cultural analysis in a contested world / Brad Epps -- The obscenity of the vizier / Frédéric Lagrange -- Homoerotic liaisons among the Mamluk elite in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Everett K. Rowson -- "In spirit we ate each other's sorrow" : female companionship in seventeenth-century Safavi Iran / Kathryn Babayan -- Types, acts, or what? : regulation of sexuality in nineteenth-century Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Epilogue : Sexual epistemologies, East and West / Dina A-Kassim. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-363) and index. - "This anthology emerges from a seminar sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in May 2003"--Pref. - Formerly CIP
ISBN:0674032047