IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1007: Premodern Sex and Sexualities in Arabic Erotic Texts
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Kathryn Maude, Department of English, American University of Beirut |
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Moderator/Chair: | Kathryn Maude, Department of English, American University of Beirut |
Paper 1007-a | Cheeks like Apples, Breasts like Pomegranates: The Anecdotal Lesbian in 10th-Century Arabic Erotic Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Sexuality |
Paper 1007-b | Same-Sex Desire and the Long Tradition of Arabic Erotica, 10th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Sexuality |
Paper 1007-c | A 14th-Century Moralist's Reading of Same-Sex Desires (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Sexuality |
Abstract | How are sex and sexualities constructed in the premodern Arabic tradition? This panel focuses on Arabic erotic manuals and moral teachings to consider the construction of same-sex desire, permissable and non-permissable sex acts, and the conflict between idealised and real sexual practices. The papers address changing attitudes towards same-sex desire from the 10th to the 15th centuries, affective language around lesbianism and queer desires in the 10th-century Jawami' al-Ladhdha (the Encyclopedia of Pleasure), and the writings of Ibn Abī Ḥajalah on sex and morality in 14th-century Cairo. |