Description
Book SynopsisWhile reflecting upon the Arab Spring, the essays in this collection cover several themes that include utilizing the concept of hegemonic masculinity in productive ways, the role of the state in promoting certain types of masculinities while devaluing and disciplining others, the potential role of feminism and activism in influencing masculinities, and the effects of colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism, as well as war and violence. Presenting cases from Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia, they seek to humanize, contextualize, and historicize masculinities to particular times and places in the Middle East.
Table of ContentsHelen Rizzo, "Introduction"
Florence Martin, "The Death of the Father in Contemporary Tunisian Film"
Hanan Kholoussy, "Internationalizing Interwar Egypt's Bachelor Tax Proposal: The Emasculation of the State and Its Single Sons"
Helen Rizzo, "The Role of Women's-Rights Organizations in Promoting Masculine Responsibility: The Anti–Sexual Harassment Campaign in Egypt"
Mustafa Abdalla, "Masculinity on Shifting Grounds: Emasculation and the Rise of the Islamist Political Scene in Post-Mubarak Egypt"
Samira Aghacy, "Masculinity and Spatial Trajectories in the Contemporary Arabic Novel"
Wilson Jacob, "Revolutionary Mankind: Egypt and the Time of al-Futuwwa"
