The new Arab man : emergent masculinities, technologies, and Islam in the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Middle East.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Islam.

Men--Middle East.

Men.

Infertility--Middle East--Psychological aspects.

Infertility.

Fertilization in vitro, Human.

Man-woman relationships--Middle East.

Man-woman relationships.

Psychological aspects.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xxii, 404 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Summary:

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 belief, infertility is more common among men than women. In-horn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"-set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty-out of devotion to the infertile wives they love.

Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: Hamza, my infertile driver

Introduction: reconceiving Middle Eastern manhood

Emergent masculinities

Hegemonic masculinity

Infertile subjectivities

Love stories

Consanguineous connectivity

Islamic masculinities

Masturbation and semen collection

Islam and assisted reproduction

Sperm donation and adoption

Egg donation and emergence

Conclusion: emergent masculinities in the Middle East

Acknowledgments

Appendix: the assisted reproduction fatwas

Glossary of Arabic terms

Glossary of medical terms

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780691148885

0691148880

9780691148892

0691148899

OCLC:

748286928