Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2019.12

Female sex­u­al­i­ty in the ear­ly medieval Islam­ic world: gen­der and sex in Ara­bic lit­er­a­ture
In the ear­ly Islam­ic world, Ara­bic erot­ic com­pen­dia and sex man­u­als were a pop­u­lar lit­er­ary genre. Although pri­mar­i­ly writ­ten by male authors, the erot­ic pub­li­ca­tions from this era often empha­sised the sex­u­al needs of women and the impor­tance of female roman­tic ful­fil­ment.
Pernil­la Myrne here explores this phe­nom­e­non, exam­in­ing a range of Ara­bic lit­er­a­ture to shed fresh light onto the com­plex­i­ties of female sex­u­al­i­ty under the Abbasids and the Buyids. Based on an impres­sive array of neglect­ed med­ical, reli­gious-legal, lit­er­ary and enter­tain­ment sources, Myrne elu­ci­dates the ten­sion between depic­tions of women’s strong sex­u­al agency and their sub­or­di­nat­ed social role in var­i­ous con­texts. In the process she uncov­ers a great diver­si­ty of approach­es from the 9th to the 11th cen­tu­ry, includ­ing the sex­u­al hand­book the Ency­clo­pe­dia of Plea­sure (Jawa­mi‘ al-lad­hd­ha), which por­trayed the diver­si­ty of female desires, assert­ing the impor­tance of mutu­al sat­is­fac­tion through live­ly poems and sto­ries. This is the first in-depth, com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of female sex­u­al­i­ty in the ear­ly Islam­ic world and is essen­tial read­ing for all schol­ars of Mid­dle East­ern his­to­ry and Ara­bic lit­er­a­ture.
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The Rout­ledge hand­book of Chi­nese applied lin­guis­tics
The Rout­ledge Hand­book of Chi­nese Applied Lin­guis­tics is writ­ten for those want­i­ng to acquire com­pre­hen­sive knowl­edge of Chi­na, the dias­po­ra and the Sino-sphere com­mu­ni­ties through Chi­nese lan­guage.
It exam­ines how Chi­nese lan­guage is used in dif­fer­ent con­texts, and how the use of Chi­nese lan­guage affects cul­ture, soci­ety, expres­sion of self and per­sua­sion of oth­ers; as well as how neu­ro­phys­i­o­log­i­cal aspects of lan­guage dis­or­der affect how we func­tion and how the advance of tech­nol­o­gy changes the way the Chi­nese lan­guage is used and per­ceived. The Hand­book con­cen­trates on the cul­tur­al, soci­etal and com­mu­nica­tive char­ac­ter­is­tics of the Chi­nese lan­guage envi­ron­ment.
Focus­ing on lan­guage use in action, in con­text and in vivo, this book intends to lay empir­i­cal grounds for col­lab­o­ra­tion and syn­er­gy among dif­fer­ent fields.
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