Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance

by Marianne Novy and Na Na

Book Overview

This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the caf s of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the Islamic Ummah. It goes far beyond the traditional notion that Islamic masculinities are inseparable from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312235097
• ISBN13: 9780312235093
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"