Introduction: The Many Names of Desire. On the Study of Sexual Practices, Norms and Binaries in the Middle East

Kreil, Aymon; Sorbera, Lucia; Tolino, Serena (2021). Introduction: The Many Names of Desire. On the Study of Sexual Practices, Norms and Binaries in the Middle East. In: Kreil, Aymon; Sorbera, Lucia; Tolino, Serena (eds.) Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures. Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day. Gender and Islam (pp. 1-13). London: I. B. Tauris

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In this introduction we set a number of sociological insights when looking at gender normativity in the Middle east, namely 1). The variability of hierarchies shaping norms; (2) the multiplicity of sources of authority on gender and sexuality that always coexist; (3) the existence of realms of activity in which the quest for pleasure seems to take precedence over dominant ethical goal setting, sometimes producing its own framework of normative expectations; and 4) the limits of our capacity as historians and social-science researchers to give a full account of the experience of sexuality. We then present the plan of the books.

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