Imagined Masculinities
Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East
Description:... In de bijdragen wordt beschreven hoe mannelijke identiteiten gevormd, betwist en gereproduceerd worden. Bevat: Festivities of violence: circumsision and the making of men / door Abdelwahab Bouhdiba en Abdu Khal; Circumsision, the first haircut and the Torah: ritual and male identity among the ultraorthodox community of Israel / door Yoram Bilu; 'Our bülent is now a commando': military service and manhood in Turkey / door 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 / door Julie Peteet; The military as a second Bar Mitzvah: combat service as initiation to Zionist masculinity / door Danny Kaplan; Reading 'Wiles of women' stories as fictions of masculinity / door Afsaneh Najmabadi; Male homosexuality in modern Arabic literature / door Frédéric Lagrange; Farid Shauqi: tough guy, family man, cinema star / door Walter Armbrust; Chewing gum, insatiable women and foreign enemies: male fears and the Arab media / door Mai Ghoussoub; 'That's how I am, world!': Saddam, maanhood and the monolithic image / door Hazim Saghieb; Lentils in paradise / Moris Farhi; Not the man my father was / door Ahmad Beydoun; Those two heavy wings of manhood: on moustaches / door Hassan Daoud.
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