Reconceiving Muslim Men: Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

Published by Berghahn Books 2018

Reconceiving Muslim Men

Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

Edited by: Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib

Volume 38 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785338830

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About this book

This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West. Amid increasing political turmoil and economic precarity, Muslim men around the world are enacting nurturing roles as husbands, sons, fathers, and community members, thereby challenging broader systems of patriarchy and oppression. By focusing on the ways in which Muslim men care for those they love, this volume challenges stereotypes and showcases Muslim men’s humanity.

Author / Editor information

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. She is also co-editor of this Berghahn Book series on Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality.

Nefissa Naguib is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Much of her work has focused on rupture and displacement, particularly in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. She has written on memory and diaspora, food activism and the politics of water, and local responses to global crises. Current research centers on Syrian refugees arriving in Norway by way of the Arctic Circle. Her most recent monograph is Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt.

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. She is also co-editor of this Berghahn Book series on Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality.

Reviews

“Reconceiving Muslim Men makes a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Muslim men, an excellent companion volume to the more theoretical discussions of masculinity, which largely focus on Western contexts, and a useful reminder of the need to differentiate between discourse and practice in exploring gender issues more broadly.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

“…a significant, highly interesting, and at times heartbreaking book… One of this book’s many strengths is that it foregrounds the ways in which Muslim men are normal. Having to show that Muslim men are human, and stressing it to resist their demonization, is highly important and timely, given current political discourse.” • Medical Anthropological Quarterly

“This volume is an important correction to various types of literature, from within anthropology as well as from other disciplinary fields… it will become a significant contribution to the field of masculinity in general and to Muslim men in particular.” • Leif Manger, University of Bergen

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I MUSLIM MEN IN LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Chapter 1 GENDER TROUBLES IN SHATILA, LEBANON: BODIES THAT MATTER ( THE FIDĀʾIYYĪN’S HEROISM) AND UNDOING GENDER (THE SHABĀB’S BURDEN) Gustavo Barbosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 2 A MAN IN LOVE: MEN, LOVE, AND HOPES FOR MARRIAGE IN CAIRO Mari Norbakk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 3 SHAPING A “DIFFERENT” MASCULINITY: SUBJECTIVITY, AGENCY, AND CULTURAL IDIOMS AMONG AFGHAN PASHTUN MEN Andrea Chiovenda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 4 FROM SOFT PATRIARCH TO COMPANIONATE PARTNER: MUSLIM MASCULINITY IN JAVA SINCE THE “NEW ORDER” Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 5 “SUPPORTIVE” MASCULINITIES AND POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME: CHANGING GENDER RELATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN INDIA Gauri Pathak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part II MUSLIM FAMILY LIFE AND MEN AS CARETAKERS
Chapter 6 TEACHING HIM TO CARE: LABOR AND THE MAKING OF WORKING-CLASS MEN IN URBAN EGYPT Farha Ghannam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 7 THE NEW KURDISH MAN: MEN AS REFUGE-GRANTERS, DOTING FAMILY MEMBERS, AND ROMANTICS Diane E. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Chapter 8 AM I MUSLIM OR JUST KAZAKH? POLITICS OF CARE IN POSTSOCIALIST KAZAKHSTAN Ainur Begim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 9 BROTHERS IN ISLAM: FAITH AND CARE AMONG MUSLIM MEN IN BRAZIL Gisele Fonseca Chagas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Chapter 10 HOW TO BE A MAN: EVERYDAY CARE AND PIETY AMONG SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM MEN IN BARCELONA Guillermo Martín-Sáiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Part III MUSLIM MEN IN PRECARIOUS TIMES
Chapter 11 GENERAL TARZAN THE COACH: HUMANITARIAN DETOURS IN THE CAREER OF A CENTRAL AFRICAN MAN-IN-ARMS Louisa Lombard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 12 “AND WHAT WILL OUR CHILDREN EAT?” DISPOSSESSION AND FOOD INSECURITY AMONG MAKONDE MEN ON TANZANIA’S SWAHILI COAST Vinay R. Kamat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Chapter 13 MORAL MASCULINE INTIMACY: THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD AMONG MUSLIM MIGRANT MEN LIVING IN GREECE Tina Palivos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Chapter 14 CASUALTIES OF FATHERHOOD: SYRIAN REFUGEE MEN AND NURTURANCE IN THE ARCTIC Nefissa Naguib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Chapter 15 SEARCHING FOR LOVE AND TEST-TUBE BABIES: IRAQI REFUGEE MEN IN REPRODUCTIVE EXILE ON THE MARGINS OF DETROIT Marcia C. Inhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Gender Studies and Sexuality; Sociology

eBook

Published: June 18, 2018
ISBN: 9781785338830