“We, the Sexologists …”: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879-1943

Kozma, Liat

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“…He does not mention any other forms of sexual interactions. In medical journals in the late 19 th and early 20 th century, masturbation was doomed to be a major cause of dangerous illnesses and a reason behind the decline of nations (Kozma, 2013). In a court case in the early 20 th century, a woman complained to the judge that her husband had anal sex with her (Hammad, 2016).…”

Section: Stop the Perversions! A Brief History Of Non-productive Sexmentioning

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Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Mikhail¹

2019

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This dissertation will answer what is the impact of modern state institutions (medicine, factory and communication technology) on the construction of the Egyptian body and time and how did the Egyptians react to these efforts? This dissertation argues that the Egyptian state aimed to produce docile subjectivities for the sake of efficiency through three institutions: the first is medicine which produced a healthy desexualised Egyptian body, made reproduction its main purpose and controlled the Egyptians’ intimate time; the second is the factory which controlled the behaviour of body and disciplined the Egyptians’ time (initiated by Muhammad Ali and continued later by Egyptian capitalism with the support of the state); the third is modern transportation (e.g. railroads) which standardised the time of the Egyptians and regulated their movement in space. But, by using everyday acts of quiet assertiveness, Egyptians tried to regain control over their own bodies and tarried the monotonous time.

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Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Mikhail¹

2019

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“…I was interested in how Arab authors translated and authored scientific texts about sex, what they chose to discuss and omit, and how debates about masturbation, heterosexual desire, and prostitution featured in question and answer columns in the press. 13 In 2012, I was invited to a fascinating symposium in Birkbeck titled "Sexology and Translation: Scientific and Cultural Encounters in the Modern World 1860-1930," which compared and contrasted readings of German sexology, mainly in Europe. The book that came out of this symposium, and the event that celebrated it at Birbeck in May 2016, are much more comprehensive-with articles on China, Japan, and Peru, and talks on Indian and Taiwanese readings of sexology.…”

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Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies

Kozma

2016

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals (HawwaandJournal of Middle East Women Studies) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender studies does, however, remain marginal in two fields—Middle East studiesandgender studies. It is normally assigned to the end of a Middle East studies conference (“and gender”), or, conversely, to the end of a gender studies conference or edited volume (“and elsewhere”). But can a discussion of technology or World War I in the modern Middle East weave in insights gained from gender or queer studies? And can a discussion of women's movements or women's labor incorporate what we know about the Middle East? I believe that more can be done to mainstream gender in Middle East studies, and to mainstream the Middle East in gender studies. Transnational history is a particularly promising direction for this endeavor.

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The Construction and Reconstruction of Sexuality in the Arab World: An Examination of Sexual Discourse, Women’s Writing and Reproductive Justice

Tabahi

2020

Sexuality & Culture

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“We, the Sexologists …”: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879-1943

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies

The Construction and Reconstruction of Sexuality in the Arab World: An Examination of Sexual Discourse, Women’s Writing and Reproductive Justice

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