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cultural norms
emotional expression
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father-son relationship
femininity
firsthand accounts
gender
gender roles
Imagined Masculinities
impotence anxiety
initiation rites
male identity
male sexuality
male stereotypes
masculinity
masculinity and power
masculinity in culture
masculinity studies
Middle East
moustache
personal reflection
politics
popular culture
ritualised violence
social change
social construct
social dynamics
social expectations
Turkish baths
virility
Product details
- ISBN 9780863560422
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2006
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
