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Sexual encounters in the Middle East : the British, the French and the Arabs

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

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"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

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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.

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