| Description |
294 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Festivities of violence : circumcision and the making of men / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Abdu Khal -- 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 -- Military as a second Bar Mitzvah : combat service as initiation to Zionist masculinity / Danny Kaplan -- 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 -- Lentils in Paradise / Moris Farhi -- Not the man my father was / Ahmad Beydoun -- Those two heavy wings of manhood : on moustaches / Hassan Daoud. |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- Middle East.
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Gender identity -- Middle East.
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Men -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Ghassub, Mayy.
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Sinclair-Webb, Emma.
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| ISBN |
0863560423 (pbk) L.13.95 |
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0863560970 |
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