Intimate selving in Arab families : gender, self, and identity.
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Syracuse, NY :
Syracuse University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theories and dynamics of gender, self, and identity in Arab families / Joseph, Suad
- Part I. Intimate selving as a practice of biography and autobiography in Arab families
- 1. Teta, Mother, and I / Makdisi, Jean Said
- 2. Searching for Baba / 3. The poet who helped shape my childhood / Melek, Maysoon
- 4. My sister Isabelle / Scheherazade
- Part II. Ethnographic and historical excavations of the self
- 5. Brother-sister relationships: connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Joseph, Suad
- 6. Wives or daughters: structural differences between urban and Bedouin Lebanese co-wives / Hamadeh, Najla S.
- 7. My son/myself, my mother/myself: paradoxical relationalities of patriarchal connectivity / Joseph, Suad
- The microdynamics of patriarchal change in Egypt and the development of an alternative discourse on mother-daughter relations: the case of 'A'isha Taymur / Hatem, Mervat F.
- Part III. Literary imaginings of intimate selving
- 9. Patriarchy and imperialism: father-son and British-Egyptian relations in Najib Mahfuz's trilogy / Altorki, Soraya
- 10. Constructions of masculinity in two Egyptian novels / Al-Nowaihi, Magda M.