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Author Wynn, L. L., 1971- author.

Title Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability / L. L. Wynn.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreigners like things looking old and dark, not shiny -- Mimesis, kinship, gift, and other things that bind us in love and desire -- "Why can't you study respectable women?" -- Mimesis, genre, gender, and sexuality in Middle East tourism -- Demimonde : belly dancers, extramarital affairs, and the respectability of women -- Gift, prostitute: money and intimacy -- "Honor killing" : on anthropological writing in an international political economy of representations -- Kinship, honor, and shame -- Love, revolution, and intimate violence -- Epilogue. Fifteen years later.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Ethnology -- Egypt.
Sex role -- Egypt -- 21st century.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Egypt -- 21st century.
Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Man-woman relationships -- Egypt -- 21st century.
Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wynn, L. L., 1971- Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018 257 pages 9781477317075 (DLC) 2018001199
ISBN 9781477317075
9781477317044
9781477317051 (electronic bk.)
9781477317068 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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