Live and Die Like a Man Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

Name: Live and Die Like a Man
Author: Farha Ghannam

Auteur: Farha Ghannam

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Farha Ghannam Ghannam Farha

Engels
Paperback
9780804783293
04 september 2013
240 pagina's

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A rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.

Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender inequalities are hotly debated by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, and ordinary citizens throughout Egypt. Live and Die Like a Man presents a unique twist on traditional understandings of gender and gender roles, shifting the attention to men and exploring how they are collectively "produced" as gendered subjects. It traces how masculinity is continuously maintained and reaffirmed by both men and women under changing socio-economic and political conditions.

Over a period of nearly twenty years, Farha Ghannam lived and conducted research in al-Zawiya, a low-income neighborhood not far from Tahrir Square in northern Cairo. Detailing her daily encounters and ongoing interviews, she develops life stories that reveal the everyday practices and struggles of the neighborhood over the years. We meet Hiba and her husband as they celebrate the birth of their first son and begin to teach him how to become a man; Samer, a forty-year-old man trying to find a suitable wife; Abu Hosni, who struggled with different illnesses; and other local men and women who share their reactions to the uprising and the changing situation in Egypt.

Against this backdrop of individual experiences, Ghannam develops the concept of masculine trajectories to account for the various paths men can take to embody social norms. In showing how men work to realize a "male ideal," she counters the prevalent dehumanizing stereotypes of Middle Eastern men all too frequently reproduced in media reports, and opens new spaces for rethinking patriarchal structures and their constraining effects on both men and women.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 september 2013
Aantal pagina's: 240
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Farha Ghannam
Tweede Auteur: Ghannam Farha
Hoofduitgeverij: Stanford University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 295 g

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EAN: 9780804783293

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Genderstudies

Sociale theorie

Mannen & Jongens

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Land: Egypte
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