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Author Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed, 1979-2013, author.

Title Medicine and morality in Egypt : gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Sherry Sayed Gadelrab.

Publication Info. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages).
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Series Library of Middle East history ; 49
Library of Middle East history ; v. 49.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Author Bio; Title; Copyright ; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter 1. Discourses on sex differences inmedieval scholarly islamic thought; Chapter 2. Professional medical discourse on sex differences and sexuality in egypt, 1827-1928; Chapter 3. Science, medicine and debates on the woman question; Chapter 4. The fatwa andits role in constructingsexual knowledge; Chapter 5. Sexual fears: public discourses on prostitutes andprostitution in egypt, 1828-1928; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary "In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualisations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested men's innate 'active' sexuality as opposed to women's more 'passive' characteristics, interpreting the differences in female and male bodies to correspond to this hierarchy. Through examining the interconnection of medical, legal, religious and moral discourses on sexual behaviour, Gadelrab highlights the association between sex, sexuality and the creation and recreation of the concept of gender at this crucial moment in the development of Egyptian society. By analysing the debates at the time surrounding science, medicine, morality, modernity and sexuality, she paints a nuanced picture of the Egyptian understanding and manipulation of the concepts of sex and gender."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Subject Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Women in medicine.
Egypt.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Medical ethics -- Egypt.
Medical ethics.
Social medicine -- Egypt -- History.
Social medicine.
Egypt.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed, 1979-2013. Medicine and morality in Egypt. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016 9781780767512 (OCoLC)834962015
ISBN 1786739755 (electronic book)
9781786739759 (electronic book)
9780857737724 (electronic book)
0857737724 (electronic book)
9781780767512 (hardback)
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