Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.