{"product_id":"live-and-die-like-a-man-9780804783286","title":"Live and Die Like a Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt.\" -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies.\" -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" -- M. L. Russell * \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man.\" -- Mona L. Russell * \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed.\" -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *\u003cbr\u003e\"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.\" -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * \u003ci\u003eInternational Feminist Journal of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East.\" -- Rachel Newcomb * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies.\" -- Kristin V. Monroe * \u003ci\u003eReview of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, \u003ci\u003eLive and Die Like a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives.\" -- Nefissa Naguib * \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405607608663,"sku":"9780804783286","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804783286.jpg?v=1730492977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/live-and-die-like-a-man-9780804783286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}