Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and IdentityThis collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Context | 21 |
Searching for Baba | 53 |
The Poet Who Helped Shape My Childhood | 77 |
My Sister Isabelle | 92 |
The Context | 109 |
Wives or Daughters | 141 |
My SonMyself My MotherMyself | 174 |
The Microdynamics of Patriarchal Change in Egypt | 191 |
The Context | 211 |
Constructions of Masculinity in Two Egyptian Novels | 235 |
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| Title | Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
| Editor | Suad Joseph |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0815628080, 9780815628088 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › › Family & Relationships / General Social Science / Gender Studies Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family |
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