Synopses & Reviews
Writings on gender in the Middle East generally neglect issues of male identity. Arguing that masculinity is as socially constructed as femininity, the authors investigate the ways in which men are acting, reacting, and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional"family.
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Mai Ghoussoubis the author of Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within.
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Emma Sinclair-Webbis a researcher for Amnesty International.
Synopsis
Writings on gender in the Middle East generally neglect issues of male identity. Arguing that masculinity is as socially constructed as femininity, the authors investigate the ways in which men are acting, reacting, and adapting to the structural upheaval of the “traditional” family.
Synopsis
Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In the process issues of male identity in a region which has seen enormous social transformations over the past thirty years have been somewhat neglected. This book looks at the process by which stereotypical male identities get constructed, reproduced and contested in different parts of the Middle East.
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A landmark study of men and men's roles in the modern Middle East.
About the Author
Mai Ghoussoub is the author of Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within as well as numerous articles on culture, aesthetics and Middle Eastern issues for international journals.
Table of Contents
Making Men: Institutions and Social Practices * Festivities of Violence: Circumcision and the Making of Men--Abdelwahab Bouhdiba & Abdu Khal * Circumcision, the First Hair Cut and the Torah--Yoram Bilu * "Our Bulent is Now a Commando": Military Service and Manhood in Turkey--Emma Sinclair-Webb * Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada--Julie Peteet * The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah--Danny Kaplan *
Male Fictions: Narratives, Images and Icons * Reading "Wiles of Women" Stories as Fictions of Masculinity--Afsaneh Najmabadi * Homosexuality in Modern Arabic Literature--Frederic Lagrange * Farid Shauqi: Tough Guy, Family Man, Cinema Star--Walter Armbrust * Chewing Gum, Insatiable Women and Foreign Enemies--Mai Ghoussoub * "That’s How I Am, World!": Saddam, Manhood and the Monolithic Image--Hazim Saghieh *
Memoir and the Construction of Manhood* Lentils in Paradise--Moris Farhi * Not the Man My Father Was--Ahmad Beydoun * Those Two Heavy Wings of Manhood: On Moustaches--Hassan Daoud Making Men: Institutions and Social Practices * Festivities of Violence: Circumcision and the Making of Men--Abdelwahab Bouhdiba & Abdu Khal * Circumcision, the First Hair Cut and the Torah--Yoram Bilu * "Our Bulent is Now a Commando": Military Service and Manhood in Turkey--Emma Sinclair-Webb * Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada--Julie Peteet * The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah--Danny Kaplan * Male Fictions: Narratives, Images and Icons * Reading "Wiles of Women" Stories as Fictions of Masculinity--Afsaneh Najmabadi * Homosexuality in Modern Arabic Literature--Frederic Lagrange * Farid Shauqi: Tough Guy, Family Man, Cinema Star--Walter Armbrust * Chewing Gum, Insatiable Women and Foreign Enemies--Mai Ghoussoub * "That’s How I Am, World!": Saddam, Manhood and the Monolithic Image--Hazim Saghieh * Memoir and the Construction of Manhood* Lentils in Paradise--Moris Farhi * Not the Man My Father Was--Ahmad Beydoun * Those Two Heavy Wings of Manhood: On Moustaches--Hassan Daoud