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Imagined masculinities : male identity and culture in the modern Middle East / edited by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Saqi, 2000.Description: 294 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0863560423 (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1090.7.M628  I53 2000
Contents:
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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ1090.7 .M628 I53 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000669928

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.

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