Description
| Product ID: | 9780863560422 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | LB |
| Title: | Imagined Masculinities |
| Subtitle: | Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East |
| Authors: | Author: Emma Sinclair-Webb, Mai Ghoussoub |
| Page Count: | 294 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Islamic studies, Middle East |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new images of virility and responsibility. Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new images of virility and responsibility. Avoiding orientalist approaches, and without claiming exclusive insider knowledge, the essays seek to introduce the diversity of masculine identities in the Middle East by exploring some of the key sites where notions of maleness are constructed, reproduced and/or contested. From the symbolic dimensions of the moustache, through an investigation of transsexuality and Islamic sexual politics, through concerns with male aggression and attitudes to weaponry, to changing notions of masculinity in the Arab novel, the contributors reflect on various aspects of public, as well as private, life. The text also offers insights from the realms of the literary, the bedchambers of the brothel and the institution of family life. |
| Imprint Name: | Saqi Books |
| Publisher Name: | Saqi Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-04-06 |
