Medicine and morality in Egypt : gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Sherry Sayed Gadelrab.

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Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed, 1979-2013 [author.]

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TextSeries: Library of Middle East history ; v. 49.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1786739755
9781786739759
9780857737724
0857737724
9781350987173
1350987174

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and morality in Egypt.DDC classification:

362.10962 23

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RA418.3.E3 G34 2016eb

NLM classification:

WZ 70 HE3

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Contents:

Cover; Author Bio; Title; Copyright ; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter 1. Discourses on sex differences inmedieval scholarly islamic thought; Chapter 2. Professional medical discourse on sex differences and sexuality in egypt, 1827-1928; Chapter 3. Science, medicine and debates on the woman question; Chapter 4. The fatwa andits role in constructingsexual knowledge; Chapter 5. Sexual fears: public discourses on prostitutes andprostitution in egypt, 1828-1928; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: "In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualisations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested men's innate 'active' sexuality as opposed to women's more 'passive' characteristics, interpreting the differences in female and male bodies to correspond to this hierarchy. Through examining the interconnection of medical, legal, religious and moral discourses on sexual behaviour, Gadelrab highlights the association between sex, sexuality and the creation and recreation of the concept of gender at this crucial moment in the development of Egyptian society. By analysing the debates at the time surrounding science, medicine, morality, modernity and sexuality, she paints a nuanced picture of the Egyptian understanding and manipulation of the concepts of sex and gender."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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"In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualisations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested men's innate 'active' sexuality as opposed to women's more 'passive' characteristics, interpreting the differences in female and male bodies to correspond to this hierarchy. Through examining the interconnection of medical, legal, religious and moral discourses on sexual behaviour, Gadelrab highlights the association between sex, sexuality and the creation and recreation of the concept of gender at this crucial moment in the development of Egyptian society. By analysing the debates at the time surrounding science, medicine, morality, modernity and sexuality, she paints a nuanced picture of the Egyptian understanding and manipulation of the concepts of sex and gender."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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