Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781138690479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 408 str.

Gul Ozyegin

Opis

A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a a Muslima identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body. Several overarching questions frame the volume: How does studying gender and sexuality expand and enrich our understanding of Muslim-majority countries, historically and at present? How does the embodiment of a Muslima identity get reconfigured in the context of twenty-first-century globalism? What analytical questions are raised about a Islama when its diverse meanings and multifaceted expressions are closely examined? What roles do gender and sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious, nationalistic, communal, and militaristic identities? How have power struggles been signified in and on the bodies of women and sexuality? How have global dynamics, such as the intensification and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affected changing dynamics of gender and sexuality in specific locales? Here global dynamics touch down in diverse contexts, from masculinity crises around war disabilities, transnational marriages, and fathering in Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan; to Muslim femininity narratives around female genital cutting, sexuality in divorce proceedings, and spouse selection; to gender crossing practices as well as protesting bodies, queering voices, and claims of authenticity in literary and political discourse. This book brings exciting research on these and other topics together in one place, allowing the essays to speak to one another across time, cultural locales, and disciplines, and enables the reader to engage the volume in comparative and cross-disciplinary fashion."

Spis treści

Introduction, GulOzyegin; Part 1 Challenged Masculinities; Chapter 1 In Vitro Nationalism, Salih CanAç?ksöz; Chapter 2 Challenged Masculinities, MustafaAbdalla; Chapter 3 Of Migration, Marriage, and Men, Aisha AneesMalik; Chapter 4 “Men Are Less Manly, Women Are More Feminine”, CenkÖzbay; Chapter 5 Between Ideals and Enactments, Fatma UmutBe?p?nar; Chapter 6 The Janissaries and Their Bedfellows, SerkanDelice; Part 2 Producing Muslim Femininities, Sexualities, and Gender Relations; Chapter 7 The Continuous Making of Pure Womanhood among Muslim Women in Cairo, Maria FrederikaMalmström; Chapter 8 Introduction to “In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting”, Victoria A.Castillo; Chapter 9 In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting, Goran A. SabirZangana, Maria FrederikaMalmström, FaithBarton; Chapter 10 “I’ve Had to Be the Man in This Marriage”, JessicaCarlisle; Chapter 11 Negotiating Courtship Practices and Redefining Tradition, Lindsey A.Conklin, Sandra NasserEl-Dine; Part 3 Mahrem, the Gaze, and Intimate Gender and Sexual Crossings; Chapter 12 Identity in Alterity, SaadiaAbid; Chapter 13 The Daring Mahrem, SertaçSehlikoglu; Chapter 14 Sexing the Hammam, ElyseSemerdjian; Part 4 The Desiring, Protesting Body and Muslim Authenticity in Fiction and Political Discourses; Chapter 15 Women’s Writing in the Land of Prohibitions, Miral MahgoubAl-Tahawy; Chapter 16 Rewriting the Body in the Novels of Contemporary Syrian Women Writers, MartinaCensi; Chapter 17 The Virgin Trials, SherineHafez; Part 5 Re-Theorizing Iranian Diaspora and “Islamic Feminism” in Iran; Chapter 18 Can the Secular Iranian Women’s Activist Speak?, LeilaMouri, Kristin SorayaBatmanghelichi; Chapter 19 Queering the “Iranian” and the “Diaspora” of the Iranian Diaspora, FarhangRouhani;

O autorze

Gul Ozyegin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Untidy Gender (Temple University Press, 2000) and New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth (New York University Press, forthcoming 2015).