The New Arab Man : Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inhorn, Marcia C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Middle East.

Masculinity--Middle East.

Men--Middle East.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Islam--Middle East.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Psychological aspects--Middle East.

Men.

Infertility--Middle East.

Infertility.

Fertilization in vitro, Human.

Man-woman relationships.

Local Subjects:

Man-woman relationships--Middle East.

Masculinity--Middle East.

Men--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

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. Inhorn 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Prologue: Hamza, My Infertile Driver

Introduction. Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood

Part I. Emergent Masculinities

Chapter 1. Hegemonic Masculinity

Chapter 2. Infertile Subjectivities

Chapter 3. Love Stories

Chapter 4. Consanguineous Connectivity

Part II. Islamic Masculinities

Chapter 5. Masturbation and Semen Collection

Chapter 6. Islam and Assisted Reproduction

Chapter 7. Sperm Donation and Adoption

Chapter 8. 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

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613589590

9781280494369

1280494360

9781400842629

140084262X

OCLC:

779828036