Imagined masculinities : male identity and culture in the modern Middle East

摘要: Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of male prespective from Middle Eastern studies gender. The text investigates ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting structural upheaval "traditional" family new images virility responsibility. Avoiding orientalist approaches, without claiming exclusive insider knowledge, essays seek introduce diversity masculine identities East by exploring some key sites where notions maleness constructed, reproduced and/or contested. From symbolic dimensions moustache, through an investigation transsexuality Islamic sexual politics, concerns with aggression attitudes weaponry, changing masculinity Arab novel, contributors reflect on various aspects public, as well private, life. also offers insights realms literary, bedchambers brothel institution