Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

by L L Wynn and L.L. Wynn

Book Overview

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, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won't treat her like a whore just because she's a dancer; and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731704X
• ISBN13: 9781477317044
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"