Arab Masculinities

Author : Konstantina Isidoros,Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253058898

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Arab Masculinities by Konstantina Isidoros,Marcia C. Inhorn Pdf

Arab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa. The 10 individual chapters of the book foreground the voices and stories of Arab men as they face economic precarity, forced displacement, and new challenges to marriage and family life. Rich in ethnographic details, they illuminate how men develop alternative strategies of affective labor, how they attempt to care for themselves and their families within their local moral worlds, and what it means to be a good son, husband, father, and community member. Arab Masculinities sheds light on the most private spaces of Arab men's lives—offering stories that rarely enter the public realm. It is a pioneering volume that reflects the urgent need for new anthropological scholarship on men and masculinities in a changing Middle East.

Author : Konstantina Isidoros,Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253058904

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Arab Masculinities by Konstantina Isidoros,Marcia C. Inhorn Pdf

Arab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa. The 10 individual chapters of the book foreground the voices and stories of Arab men as they face economic precarity, forced displacement, and new challenges to marriage and family life. Rich in ethnographic details, they illuminate how men develop alternative strategies of affective labor, how they attempt to care for themselves and their families within their local moral worlds, and what it means to be a good son, husband, father, and community member. Arab Masculinities sheds light on the most private spaces of Arab men's lives—offering stories that rarely enter the public realm. It is a pioneering volume that reflects the urgent need for new anthropological scholarship on men and masculinities in a changing Middle East.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400842629

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The New Arab Man by Marcia C. Inhorn Pdf

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love. Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology.

Author : Samira Aghacy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815650898

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Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967 by Samira Aghacy Pdf

This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. While gender studies in the area have focused primarily on the situation of women, the treatment of Arab men as gendered subjects has fallen behind. Samira Aghacy’s rich analysis presents gender relations not within a fixed biological mold but rather as a complex phenomenon fraught with ambivalence and operating within particular historical and geopolitical settings. Through a series of close readings of twenty contemporary Arabic novels, Aghacy presents a mosaic of masculinities that challenges the generally held view of an essentialized archetypal Arab man and that mirrors a contested vision of manliness where men figure in diverse sociocultural environments. This groundbreaking work reveals the volatile nature of masculinity and its inextricability from femininity.

Author : À. Carabí,J. Armengol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137462565

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Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World by À. Carabí,J. Armengol Pdf

Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.

Author : Helen Mary Rizzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9774166566

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Masculinities in Egypt and the Arab World by Helen Mary Rizzo Pdf

While reflecting upon the Arab Spring, the essays in this collection cover several themes that include utilizing the concept of hegemonic masculinity in productive ways, the role of the state in promoting certain types of masculinities while devaluing and disciplining others, the potential role of feminism and activism in influencing masculinities, and the effects of colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism, as well as war and violence. Presenting cases from Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia, they seek to humanize, contextualize, and historicize masculinities to particular times and places in the Middle East.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096926717

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The New Arab Man by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lahoucine Ouzgane
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848137141

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Islamic Masculinities by Lahoucine Ouzgane Pdf

This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the cafés of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the Islamic Ummah. It goes far beyond the traditional notion that Islamic masculinities are inseparable from the control of women, and shows how the relationship between spirituality and masculinity is experienced quite differently from the prevailing Western norms. Drawing on sources ranging from modern Arabic literature to discussions of Muhammad‘s virility and Abraham‘s paternity, it portrays ways of being in the world that intertwine with non-Western conceptions of duty to the family, the state and the divine.

Author : Josep M. Armengol,Marta Bosch Vilarrubias,Àngels Carabí,Teresa Requena
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351862950

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Masculinities and Literary Studies by Josep M. Armengol,Marta Bosch Vilarrubias,Àngels Carabí,Teresa Requena Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities -- 1 The Negro Goes to War -- 2 Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"--3 Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American Theater -- Part II Transnational Masculinities -- 4 Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities -- 5 Transnational Legacies and Masculinity Politics in The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao -- 6 New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women -- Part III The Ages of Men -- 7 "Men Who Cry in Their Sleep": Aging Male Hysteria in Martin Amis's London Stories -- 8 Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Toni Morrison's Black Boys -- 9 Fighting the Monsters Inside: Masculinity, Agency, and the Aging Gay Man in Christopher Bram's Father of Frankenstein -- Part IV Masculinities and Affect -- 10 Theorizing the Masculinity of Affect -- 11 Men of War: Affect, Embodiment, and Western Heroic Masculinity in Dispatches and The Hurt Locker -- Part V Eco-masculinities -- 12 The "Wild, Wild World": Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination -- 13 Green Intersections: Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis -- Part VI Masculinities and/in Capitalism -- 14 Masculinities and Financial Capitalism -- 15 Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions -- 16 "To Love What Death Doesn't Touch": Questioning Capitalist Masculinity in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch -- Part VII Epilogue Masculinity Studies: New Directions -- Index

Author : Mayy Ghaṣṣūb,Emma Sinclair-Webb
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025196390

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Imagined Masculinities by Mayy Ghaṣṣūb,Emma Sinclair-Webb Pdf

Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In the process issues of male identity in a region which has seen enormous social transformations over the past thirty years have been somewhat neglected. This book looks at the process by which stereotypical male identities get constructed, reproduced and contested in different parts of the Middle East.

Author : Joumana Haddad
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908906083

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Superman is an Arab by Joumana Haddad Pdf

This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a lie. In this explosive sequel to I Killed Scheherazade, Joumana Haddad examines the patriarchal system that continues to dominate in the Arab world and beyond. From monotheist religions and the concept of marriage to institutionalised machismo and widespread double standards, Haddad reflects upon the vital need for a new masculinity in these times of revolution and change in the Middle East. 'The revolution and its backlash are not just being fought in the streets, squares and elections across the Middle East, but also on the faces and bodies of millions of Arab women and their sisters across the world. Haddad speaks for all of us. It's time to listen.' Bidisha 'One of the most intelligent, talented and courageous young Arab poets and intellectuals today' Mahmoud Darwish 'The Germain Greer of Lebanon' Independent.

Author : Rubén Cenamor,Stefan Brandt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498567558

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Ecomasculinities by Rubén Cenamor,Stefan Brandt Pdf

While there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.

Author : Hoda Elsadda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748669189

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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel by Hoda Elsadda Pdf

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend. Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Author : Josep M. Armengol
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030715960

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Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction by Josep M. Armengol Pdf

This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that men’s aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.

Author : Joseph Gelfer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461469315

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Masculinities in a Global Era by Joseph Gelfer Pdf

​​Masculinities in a Global Era extends the conversation of masculinity studies by analyzing global masculinities from a psychological perspective. Canvassing a broad array of psychological aspects such as the construction of identity, the negotiation of power, coping with trauma, and sexuality, this volume shows how masculinities are experienced, performed and embodied in geographically dispersed communities. Importantly, Masculinities in a Global Era fulfills a much-needed but elusive need within the study of masculinities: a forum in which the often polarized approaches of pro-feminists and men’s rights advocates can begin to move beyond their entrenched historical positions towards a more fruitful and nuanced future.​