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Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability /

Cairo 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; M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wynn, L. L., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Acknowledgments; 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny; 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire; 3. "Why Can't You Study Respectable Women?"; 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism; 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women; 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy; 7. "Honor Killing": On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations; 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame; 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence
  • Epilogue. Fifteen Years LaterNotes; References; Index