Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt : : Navigating the Margins of Respectability / / L. L. Wynn.
Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny
- 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire
- 3. “Why Can’t You Study Respectable Women?”
- 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism
- 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women
- 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy
- 7. “Honor Killing”: On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations
- 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame
- 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence
- Epilogue. Fifteen Years Later
- Notes
- References
- Index