TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinclair-Webb,Emma
AU  - Ghoussoub,Mai
TI  - Imagined masculinities: male identity and culture in the modern Middle East 
SN  - 0863560423 (pbk)
AV  - HQ1090.7.M628  I53 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Saqi
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Men
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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
ER  -