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28%OFFMarcia C. Inhorn - The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East - 9780691148892 - V9780691148892
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The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

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Description for The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East Paperback. Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. This book challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 halftones. 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH; JFSJ2; JHMC; MBNH4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638.
Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148892
SKU
V9780691148892
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About Marcia C. Inhorn
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr., Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. Her many books include Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt and Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt.

Reviews for The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies One of Choice's Editors' Picks, October 2012 Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of ... Read more

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