Research Catalog

Title

Sexual encounters in the Middle East : the British, the French and the Arabs / Derek Hopwood.

Author

Hopwood, Derek, 1933-

Publication

Reading, UK : Ithaca Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

v, 308 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book is a study of a hitherto neglected topic: the way in which British, French and Arab men and women related to each other sexually, primarily during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In examining sexual perceptions propagated in travel writing, paintings and novels together with sexual experiences of individuals, Derek Hopwood argues that sexual attitudes have deeply influenced Euro-Arab relationships in the past and still do so today. Sexual attitudes and proclivities affected the ways in which people reacted to each other and, perhaps more controversially, influenced the course of history. Inherited sexual ideas coloured everyday relations in the Middle East and the relationships of Arabs in Europe." "The lives of numerous individuals are studied, including Lawrence, Burton, Bell, Eberhardt, Gide and Thesiger, as are certain institutions which so fascinated Europe, such as the harem, hammam, veiling and slavery. The final section examines how modern Arab writers have treated Euro-Arab sexual relations in their many novels and short stories."--Jacket

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Geschichte 1800-1990
• British > Sexual behavior > History > Middle East > 19th century
• British > Sexual behavior > History > Middle East > 20th century
• French > Sexual behavior > History > Middle East > 19th century
• French > Sexual behavior > History > Middle East > 20th century
• Arabs > Sexual behavior > History > 19th century
• Arabs > Sexual behavior > History > 20th century
• Arabs > Sexual behavior > Europe > 19th century
• Arabs > Sexual behavior > Europe > 20th century
• Culture conflict > Middle East > History > 20th century
• Sex > history
• Arab World
• 15.75 history of Asia
• Culture conflict
• Manners and customs
• Araber
• Briten
• Franzosen
• Sexuelle Attraktion
• Seksuele betrekkingen
• Europeanen
• Arabieren
• Sex customs > Middle East > History
• Europeans > Sexual behavior > History. > Middle East
• Arabs > Sexual behavior > History. > Middle East
• Europeans > Middle East
• Middle East > Social life and customs > 19th century
• Middle East > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Europe
• Middle East
• Bröthen Hoyerswerda
• Araber
• Franzosen

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.

Contents

1. The background to prejudice -- 2. The Middle East and European consciousness -- 3. The Middle East and Empires -- 4. French experiences -- 5. Europeans and Middle Eastern institutions -- 6. Western attitudes towards Middle Eastern men and women -- 7. European patterns of behaviour -- 8. Interconnections -- 9. British lives and the Middle East -- 10. Arabs in Europe.

ISBN

• 0863722539
• 9780863722530

OCLC

• ocm42043272
• 42043272
• SCSB-14697764

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library