{"product_id":"love-sex-and-desire-in-modern-egypt-navigating-the-margins-of-respectability-hardback-9781477317044","title":"Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt; Navigating the Margins of Respectability (Hardback) 9781477317044","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNavigating the Margins of Respectability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eL. L. Wynn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477317044, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAn important study of double standards in the Arab world.\u003c\/div\u003e (The Arab Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003eLove, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e] is an ambitious book, and Wynn delivers great theoretical insight…Wynn makes important contributions to anthropological theories of gender and sexuality in the Arab world, as well as sharing rich ethnographic evidence, furthering the diversity of scholarly representations of Middle Eastern women.\u003c\/div\u003e (Association for Feminist Anthropology) \u003cdiv\u003eEngagingly written, Wynn's study of love, desire, and respectability in Egypt offers important insights for scholars working on these topics and is essential reading for those working on gender and sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa.\u003c\/div\u003e (American Anthropologist) \u003cdiv\u003eWynn expertly charts the various ways that Cairene females are assessed as respectable, and how these assessments are internalized, no matter what the woman's class or background…This is an excellent book for anthropology students, especially in its interplay of theoretical and research chapters. It is a guide to the minefields of ethnography and an argument against rigid categories and theories in any field.\u003c\/div\u003e (Al Jadid) \u003cdiv\u003eAn interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt...The book’s narrative style and care with which key characters and interlocutors are developed throughout, reiterate Wynn’s dedication to the political stakes of her text. From the antique store owners, workers and tour guides (called tourist hustlers) to belly dancers and university students the ethnography spans a variety of social groups and classes where themes of love, sex, and desire intertwine with the economy such that intimacy and circulation and exchange of money becomes closely tied.\u003c\/div\u003e (New Books in Middle Eastern Studies) \u003cdiv\u003eReducing problems to issues of status is a frequent bias of anthropological analyses. Consequently, Wynn’s theoretical discussion of how love and desire combine with the gaze of others is crucial. Seen in this light, the richness and subtlety of the book’s central argument about respectability make it a key contribution to current debates on gender and love in anthropology...\u003ci\u003eLove, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e is also an intelligent and beautifully written book that anyone interested in the subject will find a pleasure to read.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability-and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won’t treat her like a whore just because she’s a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risquÉ parties for other men and their mistresses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in transnational Cairo over two decades, \u003ci\u003eLove, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that “naturally” inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. “\u003cbr\u003eWhy Can’\u003cbr\u003et You Study Respectable Women?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. “\u003cbr\u003eHonor Killing”\u003cbr\u003e: On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. 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