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Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability / L.L. Wynn.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection GN648 .W95 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynn, L. L., 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Egypt.
- Ethnology.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- Sex role.
- Manners and customs.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Egypt--Social conditions--21st century.
- Sex role--Egypt--21st century.
- Women--Sexual behavior--Egypt--21st century.
- Women--Egypt--Social conditions--21st century.
- Man-woman relationships--Egypt--21st century.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Foreigners like things looking old and dark, not shiny
- Mimesis, kinship, gift, and other things that bind us in love and desire
- "Why can't you study respectable women?"
- Mimesis, genre, gender, and sexuality in Middle East tourism
- Demimonde : belly dancers, extramarital affairs, and the respectability of women
- Gift, prostitute: money and intimacy
- "Honor killing" : on anthropological writing in an international political economy of representations
- Kinship, honor, and shame
- Love, revolution, and intimate violence
- Epilogue. Fifteen years later.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477317044
- 147731704X
- 9781477317075
- 1477317074
- OCLC:
- 1021055287
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