Imagined masculinities : male identity and culture in the modern Middle East /
Imagined masculinities : male identity and culture in the modern Middle East /
edited by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb.
- London : Saqi, 2000.
- 294 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I : Making Men: Institutions and Social Practices. Festivities of Violence: Circumcision and the Making of Men / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Abdu Kbal -- Circumcision, the First Haircut and the Torah: Ritual and Male Identity Among the Ultraorthodox Community of Israel / Yoram Bilu -- 'Our Bulent Is Now a Commando': Military Service and Manhood in Turkey / Emma Sinclair-Webb -- 'Military service in spite of me': Interview with L. S., Former Conscript -- Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence / Julie Peteet -- The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service as Initiation to Zionist Masculinity / Danny Kaplan. Pt. II : Male Fictions: Narratives, Images and Icons. Reading 'Wiles of Women' Stories as Fictions of Masculinity / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Male Homosexuality in Modern Arabic Literature / Frederic Lagrange -- Farid Shauqi: Tough Guy, Family Man, Cinema Star / Walter Armbrust -- Chewing Gum, Insatiable Women and Foreign Enemies: Male Fears and the Arab Media / Mai Ghoussoub -- 'That's how I am, world!': Saddam, Manhood and the Monolithic Image / Hazim Saghieh. Pt. III : Memoir and Male Identity. Lentils in Paradise / Moris Farbi -- Not the Man My Father Was / Ahmad Beydoun -- Those Two Heavy Wings of Manhood: On Moustaches / Hassan Daoud.
0863560423 (pbk)
Masculinity--Middle East.
Gender identity--Middle East.
Men--Social conditions.--Middle East
HQ1090.7.M628 / I53 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I : Making Men: Institutions and Social Practices. Festivities of Violence: Circumcision and the Making of Men / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Abdu Kbal -- Circumcision, the First Haircut and the Torah: Ritual and Male Identity Among the Ultraorthodox Community of Israel / Yoram Bilu -- 'Our Bulent Is Now a Commando': Military Service and Manhood in Turkey / Emma Sinclair-Webb -- 'Military service in spite of me': Interview with L. S., Former Conscript -- Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence / Julie Peteet -- The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service as Initiation to Zionist Masculinity / Danny Kaplan. Pt. II : Male Fictions: Narratives, Images and Icons. Reading 'Wiles of Women' Stories as Fictions of Masculinity / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Male Homosexuality in Modern Arabic Literature / Frederic Lagrange -- Farid Shauqi: Tough Guy, Family Man, Cinema Star / Walter Armbrust -- Chewing Gum, Insatiable Women and Foreign Enemies: Male Fears and the Arab Media / Mai Ghoussoub -- 'That's how I am, world!': Saddam, Manhood and the Monolithic Image / Hazim Saghieh. Pt. III : Memoir and Male Identity. Lentils in Paradise / Moris Farbi -- Not the Man My Father Was / Ahmad Beydoun -- Those Two Heavy Wings of Manhood: On Moustaches / Hassan Daoud.
0863560423 (pbk)
Masculinity--Middle East.
Gender identity--Middle East.
Men--Social conditions.--Middle East
HQ1090.7.M628 / I53 2000