The new Arab man [electronic resource] : emergent masculinities, technologies, and Islam in the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn.
Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
2012
BF692.5 .I54 2012eb
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Title The new Arab man [electronic resource] : emergent masculinities, technologies, and Islam in the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn.
Author Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
ISBN 9781400842629 (electronic book)
9780691148885
9780691148892
Publication Details Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 404 p.) : ill.
Call Number BF692.5 .I54 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.8/492700811
Summary Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love. Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue: Hamza, my infertile driver
Introduction: reconceiving Middle Eastern manhood
Emergent masculinities
Hegemonic masculinity
Infertile subjectivities
Love stories
Consanguineous connectivity
Islamic masculinities
Masturbation and semen collection
Islam and assisted reproduction
Sperm donation and adoption
Egg donation and emergence
Conclusion: emergent masculinities in the Middle East
Acknowledgments
Appendix: the assisted reproduction fatwas
Glossary of Arabic terms
Glossary of medical terms
Notes.

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