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Ghoussoub - Imagined Masculinities - 9780863560422 - V9780863560422
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Imagined Masculinities

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Description for Imagined Masculinities Paperback.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780863560422
SKU
V9780863560422
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Ref
99-1

Reviews for Imagined Masculinities
'Takes the reader into new territory ... rich and stimulating.' Susannah Tarbush, al-Hayat 'It is a welcome change to find a volume devoted to aspects of being and becoming a man.' Denys Johnson-Davies, Al-Ahram 'Interesting and valuable ... Ghoussoub and Sinclair-Webb should be congratulated.' Issa Boullata, al-Jadid Magazine

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