Arab Masculinities

Konstantina Isidoros is Lecturer in Anthropology at St Catherine's College and Research Affiliate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is author of Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi.Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University. She is the author of six books, including America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins; Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai; and The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.

• Introduction: Middle East Anthropology and the Gender Divide: Reconceiving Arab Masculinity in Precarious Times, by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina IsidorosPart I. Masculinity and Precarity: Class Conflict and Economic Indignity1. Egyptian Middle-Class Masculinity and its Working-Class Others, by Bård Helge Kårtveit2. Al-Ustura ("The Legend"): Folk Hero or Thug? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt, by Jamie Furniss3. Al-Hogra—A State of Injustice: Portraits of Moroccan Men in Search of Dignity and Piety in the Informal Economy, by Hsain IlahianePart II. Masculinity and Displacement: Moving, Settling, and Questions of Belonging4. Repeating Manhood: Migration and the Unmaking of Men in Morocco, by Alice Elliot5. "I Am a Good Man—I'm a Gardener!": Arab Migrant Fathers' Reactions to Mistrusted Masculinity in Denmark, by Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen6. Doing Gender in Shatila Refugee Camp: Palestinian Lads, Their Pigeons, and an Ethnographer, by Gustavo Barbosa7. Welcoming Ban Ki-Moon: From Warrior-Nomads to Sahrawi Refugee-Statesmen in North Africa, by Konstantina IsidorosPart III. Masculinity and Familial Futures: Sex, Marriage, and Fatherhood under Threat8. Desiring the Nation: Masculinity, Marriage, and Futurity in Lebanon, by Sabiha Allouche9. Masculinity under Siege: The Use of Narcotic Pain Relievers to Restore Virility in Egypt, by L. L. Wynn10. Palestinian Sperm-Smuggling: Fatherhood, Political Struggle, and Israeli Prisons, by Laura FerreroIndex

The shared goal of these chapters is to understand how Arab men in general experience their understanding of masculinity in the context of ongoing political upheavals, displacements, and precarious economic conditions. Recommended- A. Rassam, emerita, CUNY Queens College (Choice)