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This chapter examines the ways in which certain processes of globalization and the academic global turn shaped notions of sexuality. In a first part, this piece briefly reflects on the histories and theories of human sexuality and illustrates how this concept took various turns during the last two centuries. This overview is followed by a second section which focuses on the global turn by discussing certain aspects of the encounter of European and Middle Eastern “sexualities”, thereby showing how various complex processes involved effectively (re-)shaped notions of sexuality. The paper concludes by addressing both the potential and the challenges of research on the interrelation of sexuality and globality.

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  1. 1.

    Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2013, p. 24.

  2. 2.

    Franz X. Eder, Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2002, p. 11; Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, op. cit., pp. 34–39.

  3. 3.

    Christoph Antweiler, Was ist den Menschen gemeinsam? Über Kultur und Kulturen, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009, p. 219.

  4. 4.

    Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, op. cit., pp. 24–26.

  5. 5.

    Thomas Laqueur, Making sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990; Mark Golden/Peter Toohey (eds.), A cultural history of sexuality in the classical world, Oxford: Berg, 2011.

  6. 6.

    Franz X. Eder, Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität, op. cit., p. 10f.

  7. 7.

    Cf. Michel Foucault, The history of sexuality, I. New York: Vintage, 1990 (2nd edition), p.100ff.

  8. 8.

    Franz X. Eder, Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität, op. cit., p. 11.

  9. 9.

    Cf. Ann McClintock, Imperial leather: Race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest, New York: Routledge, 1995; Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Colonial fantasies: Towards a feminist reading of Orientalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998; Irvin Cemil Schick, The erotic margin: Sexuality and spaciality in alteritist discourse, London: Verso, 1999; Pamela Cheek, Sexual antipodes: Enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Mytheli Sreenivas, Sexuality and modern imperialism, in: Robert M. Buffington et al. (eds.), A global history of sexuality: The modern era. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014, pp. 57–88.

  10. 10.

    Jürgen Osterhammel, Die Entzauberung Asiens. Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2010 (2nd edition), pp. 370–374.

  11. 11.

    Edward W. Said, Orientalism, London: Penguin, 1978.

  12. 12.

    Cf. Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A twentieth-century history, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011, pp. 6–44; Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, loc. cit., p. 97f.

  13. 13.

    Cf. Franz X. Eder, Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität, op. cit., p. 11f.

  14. 14.

    Michael Foucault, The history of sexuality, I., loc. cit; Thomas Laqueur, Making sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud, loc. cit.

  15. 15.

    Michel Foucault, The history of sexuality, I., loc. cit.

  16. 16.

    Valerie Traub, The past is a foreign country? The times and spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies, in: Kathryn Babayan/Afsanah Najmabadi (eds.), Islamicate sexualities: Translations across temporal geographies of desire, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008; Jonathan Burton, Western encounters with sex and bodies in non-European cultures, 1500–1700, in: Sarah Toulalan/Kate Fisher (eds.), The Routledge history of sex and the body: 1500 to present, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 495–510.

  17. 17.

    See Franz X. Eder, Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität, op. cit., pp. 227–243.

  18. 18.

    Henrietta L. Moore, Sexuality encore, in: Peter Aggleton/Paul Boyce et.al. (eds.), Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 1–17.

  19. 19.

    Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, op. cit., p. 200.

  20. 20.

    A selection of this: Dennis Altman, Global sex, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001; Jon Binnie, The globalization of sexuality, London: Sage, 2004; Peter Aggleton/Paul Boyce et. al. (eds.), Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers, London: Routledge, 2012; Robert M. Buffington/Eithne Luibhéid et. al. (eds.), A global history of sexuality: The modern era, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

  21. 21.

    Jon Binnie, The globalization of sexuality, op. cit., pp. 1–5.

  22. 22.

    Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams, Berlin: Insel Verlag, 2011, pp. 269ff.; Anissa Hélie, Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts, in: Idem./Homa Hoodfar (eds.), Sexuality in Muslim contexts: Restrictions and resistance, London: Zed Books, 2012, pp. 294–334.

  23. 23.

    Jürgen Osterhammel, Die Entzauberung Asiens. Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert, op. cit., pp. 349–374.

  24. 24.

    Drod Ze’evi, Producing desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, p. 155f.

  25. 25.

    Cf. Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams, op. cit., p. 271.

  26. 26.

    Ibid.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., pp. 277–290.

  28. 28.

    Dror Ze’evi, Producing desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1800, loc. cit.

  29. 29.

    Cf. Thomas Laqueur, Making sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud, loc. cit.

  30. 30.

    Afsanah Najmabadi, Women with mustaches and men without beards: Gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005; Dror Ze’evi, Producing desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1800, loc. cit.

  31. 31.

    Cf. Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams, op. cit., pp. 279–281.

  32. 32.

    Cf. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Eroticizing Europe, in: Elton L. Daniel (ed.), Society and culture in Qajar Iran: Studies in honor of Hafez Farmayan, Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2002, pp. 311–346; Dror Ze’evi, Producing desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1800, op. cit., pp. 149–165.

  33. 33.

    Dror Ze’evi, Producing desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1800, op. cit., p. 171; Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams, op. cit., p. 299.

  34. 34.

    Idem., p. 309; and: Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A twentieth-century history, op. cit., pp. 198–205; Daniela Klimke, Umrisse einer Weltgesellschaft: Eine Skizze des globalen Sexualregimes, in: Thorsten Benkel/Akalin Femi (eds.), Soziale Dimension der Sexualität, Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag, 2010, pp. 91–97.

  35. 35.

    On the term “neosexual revolution,” see Volkmar Sigusch, Sexualitäten. Eine kritische Theorie in 99 Fragmenten, op. cit., pp. 226–234.

  36. 36.

    Daniela Klimke, Umrisse einer Weltgesellschaft: Eine Skizze des globalen Sexualregimes, in: Thorsten Benkel/Akalin Femi (eds.), Soziale Dimension der Sexualität, loc. cit.; Anissa Hélie, Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts, in: Idem./ Homa Hoodfar (eds.), Sexuality in Muslim contexts: Restrictions and resistance, loc. cit.

  37. 37.

    Cf. Denis Altman, Global sex, loc. cit.; Jon Binnie, The globalization of sexuality, loc. cit.; Tom Boellstorff, Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and globalization, in: Peter Aggleton/Paul Boyce et al. (eds.), Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 171–185; Joseph A. Massad, Desiring Arabs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007; Afsanah Najmabadi, Is another language possible?, in: History of the Present 2 (2)/2012, pp. 169–183.

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Khosravie, J., Banse, R. (2019). Sexuality. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90377-4_24

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