Overview

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices. The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged and Married, and It's Complicated. The allusion to categories of relationship status on social media is at once a nod to the compulsion to categorize, recognition of the many ways that categorization is rarely straightforward, and acknowledgment that much of the intimate lives described by the contributors is mediated by online technologies.

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Author:   L. L. Wynn ,  Angel M. Foster
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.151kg
ISBN:  

9780826504333

ISBN 10:   0826504337
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   31 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary of Terms Introduction Sex in the Middle East and North Africa: Complicated Legacies and the Politics of Representation | Angel M. Foster & L. L. Wynn Part I: Single and Dating Anywhere but Home: Dating, Hooking Up, and Casual Sex in Jordan | I. M. El-Mowafi & Angel M. Foster Gay Sex Apps and Heteronormative Masculinity in Beirut, Lebanon | Mathew Gagné Better Out than In: The Importance of Withdrawal in Sex and Family Planning in Turkey | Katrina MacFarlane Queer Sociality in the Gulf in the Early 2000s: A Continuum of Outness and Silence Mediated by Class Privilege | Saffaa Hassanein & L. L. Wynn Hexes and Exes: Post-Breakup Curses in Fez, Morocco | Shannon Hayes Part II: Engaged and Married God under the Bedsheets: Pleasure, Porn, and Piety among Iranian Revolutionary Women | Younes Saramifar The Gendered Relationship between Sex and Marriage in Egypt: Interrogating Secret Marriages among Urban Youth in Cairo and Minya | Rania Salem For us, there is no love: Becoming """"American"""" and the Politics of Intimacy | Morgen Chalmiers The Wives of the Heroes, Smuggled Sperm, and Reproductive Technologies: Palestinian Women Building Families on Their Own | Laura Ferrero Part III: It's Complicated Blurred Lines between Transactional Sex and Paramarital Relationships in Egypt | L. L. Wynn Legal and Illegal Sex Work in Tunisia: Before and After the 2010-2011 Revolution | Laurence Michalak Love, Sex, and Sexuality in Morocco: Navigating Barriers, Expanding Boundaries | Ginger Feather (Un)hiding the Samaritan's Sexuality in Egypt: Insights from a Coptic Woman's Journal | Mina Ibrahim Conclusion Sexual Emergence in the Middle East and North Africa: Ten Insights from the Ethnography | Marcia C. Inhorn Index

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Sex in the Middle East and North Africa rewards its readers with the breadth and depth it offers in problematizing and countering the pervasive orientalist images of the voiceless, sexless, veiled Muslim women and repression of sexual minorities--the most potent symbols of Muslim-majority societies--in the popular imagination of the West. --Gul Ozyegin, author of New Desires, New Selves: Love, Sex, and Piety among Turkish Youth

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa rewards its readers with the breadth and depth it offers in problematizing and countering the pervasive orientalist images of the voiceless, sexless, veiled Muslim women and repression of sexual minorities--the most potent symbols of Muslim-majority societies--in the popular imagination of the West. --Gul Ozyegin, author of New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth

""Sex in the Middle East and North Africa rewards its readers with the breadth and depth it offers in problematizing and countering the pervasive orientalist images of the voiceless, sexless, veiled Muslim women and repression of sexual minorities--the most potent symbols of Muslim-majority societies--in the popular imagination of the West."" --Gul Ozyegin, author of New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth

Author Information

L. L. Wynn, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, is the author of Pyramids and Nightclubs: A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends about a Marauding Prince, and Blonde Belly Dancers. Angel M. Foster holds an endowed chair of women's health research at the University of Ottawa. She is a cofounder of Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants.

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