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El Feki's research ranges from an account of the uses of pornography and sex toys to discussions of impotence, domestic abuse, the taboos of childlessness, the ambiguities of divorce, the many varieties of marriage, emergent transgender identities and the issues of HIV/Aids awareness and activi...

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Published in:The Times higher education supplement 2013-03 (2094), p.52
Main Authors: Bari, Shahidha, Shereen El Feki, Shook, Karen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Arabs
El Feki, Shereen
Female circumcision
HIV
Homosexuality
Human immunodeficiency virus
Islam
Marriage
Reading
Sexuality
Teaching Methods
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Summary:El Feki's research ranges from an account of the uses of pornography and sex toys to discussions of impotence, domestic abuse, the taboos of childlessness, the ambiguities of divorce, the many varieties of marriage, emergent transgender identities and the issues of HIV/Aids awareness and activism in the region. Attempting to reconcile this part of the world's apparent low incidence of infection as recorded in United Nations Aids statistics with contrary findings from her own research on the ground, El Feki is compelled to point to a troublingly collective disavowal of sexual behaviour outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage, "a resistance buttressed by religious interpretation and social convention".
ISSN:0049-3929