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

Author/creator Wynn, L. L., 1971-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Descriptionviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018001199
ISBN9781477317044 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781477317075 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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