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Sexuality in Middle East Societies
As'ad AbuKhalil, "A Note on the Study of Homosexuality in the Arab/Islamic Civilization," Arab Studies Journal 1/2 (Fall 1993), pp. 32-34. As'ad AbuKhalil, "Gender Boundaries and Sexual Categories in the Arab World," Feminist Issues 15/1-2 (1997), pp. 91-104.
Evelyne Accad, "Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women in the Middle East," in Chandra T. Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres, eds., Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
Janet Afary, "The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism," New Left Review 224 (July/August 1997), pp. 89-110.
Kamran Asdar Ali, "Notes on Rethinking Masculinities: An Egyptian Case," Learning About Sexuality: A Practical Beginning (The Population Council and the International Women's Health Coalition, 1995), pp. 98-109.
Amnesty International, Breaking the Silence: Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation (London: Amnesty International U.K., 1997).
Emily Apter, "Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 4/1 1992, pp. 205-223.
Beth Baron, "Mothers, Morality and Nationalism in Pre-1919 Egypt," in Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih and Reeva S. Simon, eds., The Origins of Egyptian Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp. 271-288.
Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Medieval Islamic Underworld (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976).
Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).
G.H. Bousquet, L'Éthique sexuelle de l'Islam (Paris: G.P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966).
Malek Chebel, L'E´sprit de sérail: perversions et marginalités au Maghreb (Paris: Lieu Common, 1988).
Bruce W. Dunne, "Homosexuality in the Middle East: An Agenda for Historical Research," Arab Studies Quarterly 12/3 & 4 (1990), pp. 55-82.
Bruce W. Dunne, "French Regulation of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Algeria," Arab Studies Journal 2/1 (1994), pp. 24-30.
Shahla Haeri, "Temporary Marriage and the State in Iran: An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality," Social Research 59/1 (1992), pp. 201-23.
Rema Hammami and Martina Rieker, "Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Marxism," New Left Review 170 (July/August 1988), pp. 93-106.
Rifat Hassan, "An Islamic Perspective," in Jeanne Becher, ed., Women, Religion and Sexuality: Studies on the Impact of Religious Teachings on Women (Philadelphia: Trinity Press, 1991), pp. 93-128.
Mervat Hatem, "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of 18th- and 19th-Century Egypt," Feminist Studies 12 (1986), pp. 251-74.
Deniz Kandiyoti, "The Paradoxes of Masculinity: Some Thoughts on Segregated Societies," in Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne, eds., Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 197-213.
Mohamed Kerrou and Moncef M'Halla, "La prostitution dans le medina de Tunis aux XIXè et XXè siècles," in Fanny Colonna and Zakya Daoud, eds., Etre Marginal au Maghreb (Paris: CNRS, 1993), pp. 201-221.
Hind Khattab, Women's Perceptions of Sexuality in Rural Giza (Giza, Egypt: The Population Council: Monographs in Reproductive Health No. 1, 1996).
Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, ed. Society and the Sexes in Medieval Islam (Malibu, California: Undena Publications, Ltd., 1979).
Valentine M. Moghadam, "Revolution, Islam and Women: Sexual Politics in Iran and Afghanistan," in Andrew Parker, et al., eds., Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York and London: Routledge, 1992).
Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature (New York and London: New York University Press, 1997).
Basim Musallam, Sex and Society in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, "Public Morality in 18th-Century Ottoman Damascus," in Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée 55-56 (1990), pp. 180-196. Everett K. Rowson, "The Effeminates of Early Medina," in Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 671-93.
Everett K. Rowson, "The Categorization of Gender and Sexual Irregularity in Medieval Arabic Vice Lists," in Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, eds., Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity (New York: Routlegde, 1991), pp. 50-79.
Fatna A. Sabbah, Woman in the Muslim Unconscious (New York: Pergammon Press, 1984).
Paula Sanders, "Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law," in Nikki R. Keddie and Beth Baron, eds., Women in Middle Eastern History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 74-95.
Arno Schmitt and Jehoeda Sofer, eds., Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies (Binghamton, New York: Harrington Park Press: 1992).
Ted Swedenburg, "Saida Sultan/Dana International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border," in Musical Quarterly 81/1 (1997), pp. 81-108.
Huseyin Tapinc, "Masculinity, Femininity, and Turkish Male Homosexuality," in Kenneth Plummer, ed., Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 39-49.
Unni Wikan, "Man Becomes Woman: Transsexualism in Oman as a Key to Gender Roles," MAN 12 (1977), pp. 304-319.
J. W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson, eds., Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Arslan Yuzgun, "Homosexuality and Police Terror in Turkey," in Journal of Homosexuality 24/3 & 4 (1993), pp. 159-169.