Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability / L.L. Wynn.
Author/creator |
Wynn, L. L., 1971- author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Edition | First edition. |
Publication Info | Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018. |
Copyright Notice | ©2018 |
Description | viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
Subject(s) |
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index. |
LCCN | 2018001199 |
ISBN | 9781477317075 paperback ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 1477317074 paperback ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 9781477317044 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 147731704X hardcover ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | library electronic book |
ISBN | non-library electronic book |
Other class# | Z UA380.8 W992Lo |
Available Items
Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | General Stacks | GN648 .W95 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |