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AHR Forum: Writing Histories of Sexuality in the Middle East
Ist Teil von
The American historical review, 2009-12, Vol.114 (5), p.1325
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Quelle
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The study of histories of sexuality in the Middle East has only recently become a domain populated by historians, and much innovative work continues to be accomplished by literary scholars, social scientists, and recently, art historians. Because literary texts, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, openly engaged sexual matters, literary and philological studies preceded the more purely historical. Recently, scholars in the field have imposed a degree of self-censorship with regard to sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, in part because of sensibilities in the region. On the other hand, most scholars have been careful to avoid the pitfall of celebrating the "openness" of Middle Eastern sexual attitudes and to reconcile sexual explicitness in some sources with the erasure of all but heterosexual upper-class males and their voices in other sources. Here, Peirce explores the histories of Middle Eastern sexualities.