{"product_id":"islamic-homosexualities-culture-history-and-literature-9780814774687","title":"Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoscoe, Will:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eWill Roscoe\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Zuni Man\/Womanand Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eLiving the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology and Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder by Harry Hay\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray, Stephen O.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eStephen O. Murray\u003c\/b\u003e is a comparative sociologist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of American Gay, Latin American Male Homosexualities, Oceanic Homosexualities, and a half dozen other books.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413361529106,"sku":"9780814774687","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6af0931e-47f2-4b61-907e-266be7eb0c2a.jpg?v=1729352980","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/islamic-homosexualities-culture-history-and-literature-9780814774687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}