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SUMMARY:Body Doubles: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Premodern 1001 Nights
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION TBD\n\nThis talk will explore what we can learn about 
 gender and sexuality in the 1001 Nights if we focus on the pre-1700 manus
 cript tradition. One of the key arguments to come out of this research is 
 that gender difference is de-emphasized in erotic episodes. This can be se
 en both in written descriptions of embodied beauty and in the images inclu
 ded in a few of the manuscripts under study. Recognizing this “erotics o
 f sameness” makes a number of fresh readings of the Nights possible\, 
 including those that center homoeroticism and gender transformation.\n\n&n
 bsp\;\n\nZayde Antrim is Charles A. Dana Research Professor of History an
 d International Studies and Acting Director of the Women\, Gender\, and Se
 xuality Program at Trinity College (Hartford\, CT). She is the author of 
 Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (Oxford 
 University Press\, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books\, 2
 018)\, as well as co-editor of Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta:
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