Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
ISBN: 9780812201086
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- History and criticism; Lesbians in literature;

Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.


Sahar Amer is Associate Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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