Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability / L.L. Wynn.

Author/creator Wynn, L. L., 1971- author.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationAustin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Ethnology--Egypt.
Sex role--Egypt. --21st century.
Women--Sexual behavior. --Egypt. --21st century.
Women--Egypt. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Man-woman relationships--Egypt. --21st century.
Egypt--Social life and customs. --21st century.
Egypt--Social conditions. --21st century.

Contents Foreigners like things looking old and dark, not shiny -- Mimesis, kinship, gift, and other things that bind us in love and desire -- "Why can't you study respectable women?" -- Mimesis, genre, gender, and sexuality in Middle East tourism -- Demimonde : belly dancers, extramarital affairs, and the respectability of women -- Gift, prostitute : money and intimacy -- "Honor killing" : on anthropological writing in an international political economy of representations -- Kinship, honor, and shame -- Love, revolution, and intimate violence -- Epilogue. Fifteen years later.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index.
LCCN 2018001199
ISBN9781477317075 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN1477317074 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN9781477317044 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN147731704X hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBNlibrary electronic book
ISBNnon-library electronic book
Other class# Z UA380.8 W992Lo

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