Behind The Veil Of Vice The Business And Culture Of Sex In The Middle East

Author : John R. Bradley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 023011427X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Veil of Vice written by John R. Bradley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting journey through the underbelly of the Middle East, exposing a secret world as shocking as it is widespread

Author : L. L. Wynn
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826504345
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex in the Middle East and North Africa written by L. L. Wynn and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices. The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged and Married, and It's Complicated. The allusion to categories of relationship status on social media is at once a nod to the compulsion to categorize, recognition of the many ways that categorization is rarely straightforward, and acknowledgment that much of the intimate lives described by the contributors is mediated by online technologies.

Author : D. Ghanim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113750708X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginity Trap in the Middle East written by D. Ghanim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural myth and its multilevel destructive influences on various aspects of social life.

Author : John R. Gregg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984524194
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, the Illustrated History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture written by John R. Gregg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, the Illustrated History: Volume III continues a courageous exploration of sexual customs and conflicts into the modern world. This work explores the fight for sexual freedom in a world of often-repressed sexuality. The conflict with the church and its control of sexuality and law has stood as a barrier against freedom of human sexuality. The focus of this work is primarily the European and American theater, as they strive to rise above the ancient precepts that have girdled sexuality. The fight was a long and hard-fought one; prejudice and prudery and claims of morality and law stood rigidly against a new rationalism beginning in the Reformation. The book explores in depth historical and contemporary worldwide slavery, forced marriage, child brides, abuses of the Catholic Church, and sexual trafficking. Also explored are the history of homosexual movements, bisexuality, and the larger LGBT+ movements.

Author : Rahil Roodsaz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736843
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Self-Fashioning written by Rahil Roodsaz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local norms such as sexual liberty and gender equality are seen as successful integration, rejecting them is regarded as a sign of failed citizenship. Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.

Author : John R. Gregg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796039446
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, the World History written by John R. Gregg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture is a daring exploration of human sexuality, from the ancient to the modern world. Sex, The World History traces sexual attitudes from the transcendent to the bizarre throughout world cultures. Unmasked, are sexual practices and beliefs previously omitted or obscured from all historical telling. In a scathing condemnation of religion and its control of sex, the book explores the intricate dance between spirituality and sexuality. Revealed for the first time is a history of bisexuality in the majority of human cultures. Prior to Christianity, bisexual orientation was common in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Religions have controlled sex and gender orientation throughout time. The history of LGBTQ across the globe is illuminated here. How have women been exploited in sexual and cultural roles from prehistory to present day? How does religion affect women’s sexuality throughout time? The supremacy of the Mother Earth Goddess throughout most of human existence, and her relatively recent fall, have had drastic consequences for women’s sexual expression and identity. Other topics included are sex slavery and human trafficking, child brides, forced marriages, Roman Catholic abuses, war time sexual crimes, Victorian licentiousness, the evolution of sexual attitudes in North and South America, the sexual revolution of the counter culture. Offered here is an encyclopedic tour of the sexuality of humankind.

Author : Colita Fairfax
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317393783
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity written by Colita Fairfax and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at a variety of racial and ethnic groups in society, Social Work, Marriage and Ethnicity examines the conventional knowledge, theories and best practices relating to marriages. Contributors address marriage interventions, female empowerment, parenting, and cohabitation, as well as the variables which impact these situations, such as employment, housing, domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, within appropriate and meaningful cultural contexts. This book will be particularly useful for social workers working in many settings: clinical, community, research, policy implementation, faith-based, and other arenas that are available to couples in need of marital support. Marriage issues need to be addressed by social workers, given its status as a vital element in family strengthening and relationship stability. This book emboldens the case manager, community organizer, or immigration officer to address marital stresses and the demands faced by those couples most impacted by systemic inequality and barriers to cultural interventions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

Author : John R. Bradley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230393667
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Arab Spring written by John R. Bradley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the book that uniquely predicted the Egyptian revolution, a new message about the Middle East: everything we're told about the Arab Spring is wrong. When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the West assumed that democracy and pluralism would triumph. Greatly praised author and foreign correspondent John R. Bradley draws on his extensive firsthand knowledge of the region's cultures and societies to show how Islamists will fill the power vacuum in the wake of the revolutions. This vivid and timely book gives an original analysis of the new Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Bahrain by highlighting the dramatic spread of Saudi-funded Wahhabi ideology, inter-tribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions. Bradley gives a boots on the ground look at how the revolutions were first ignited and the major players behind them, and shows how the local population participated in and responded to the uprisings. In Tunisia he witnesses secularists under violent attack and in Egypt observes radical Islamists taking control of the streets. He illuminates the ancient sectarian strife shaking Bahrain, fierce civil war pitching tribe against tribe in Libya and Yemen, and ethnic divisions threatening to tear apart Syria and Iran. Taking it one step further, Bradley offers a comprehensive look at how across countries, liberal, progressive voices that first rallied the Arab masses were drowned out by the slogans of the better-organized and more popular radical Islamists. With the in-depth knowledge of a local and the keen perspective of a seasoned reporter, After the Arab Spring offers a piercing analysis of what the empowerment of Islamism bodes for the future of the Middle East and the impact on the West.

Author : Shanon Shah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319631306
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Gay Muslim written by Shanon Shah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the lived experiences of gay Muslims in Malaysia, where Islam is the majority and official religion, and in Britain, where Muslims form a religious minority. By exploring how they negotiate their religious and sexual identities, Shah challenges the notion that Islam is inherently homophobic and that there is an unbridgeable divide between ‘Islam’ and the ‘West’. Shah also gained access to gay Muslim networks and individuals for his in-depth research in both countries, and the book investigates the different ways that they respond to everyday anti-homosexual or anti-Muslim sentiments. Amid the many challenges they confront, the gay Muslims whom Shah encountered find innovative and meaningful ways to integrate Islam and gay identity into their lives. The Making of a Gay Muslim will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in contemporary Islam, religion, gender and sexuality.

Author : Scott T. Allison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113758081X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership written by Scott T. Allison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln's iconic phrase, 'the better angels of our nature', revealed his belief that the noblest qualities of humanity would heal a divided nation. In Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership, an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars from the University of Richmond explore these noble qualities and how leaders such as Lincoln make that expression possible. They review the landscape of spiritual leadership and the spiritual principles that are fundamental to effective and inspired leadership, emphasizing the values of love, forgiveness, purpose, trust, sacrifice, equality, and liberty, among others. Through an analysis of historical examples and contemporary issues, this book celebrates the many gifted and enlightened individuals whose leadership embodies the most exquisite qualities of humanity. It outlines the conceptual linkage between leadership and spirituality within groups and organizations and will appeal to students and scholars of leadership, ethics, religion, philosophy, psychology, and human growth potential.