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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 18 halftones. 16 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691148885
  • 9781400842629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.3/32089927 23
LOC classification:
  • BF692.5 .I54 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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