Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967

by Samira Aghacy and Evelyne Accad

Book Overview

This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. While gender studies in the area have focused primarily on the situation of women, the treatment of Arab men as gendered subjects has fallen behind. Samira Aghacy's rich analysis presents gender relations not within a fixed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632371
• ISBN13: 9780815632375
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"