Title Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability / L.L. Wynn

Edition First edition Published Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary 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; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won't treat her like a whore just because she's a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risqué parties for other men and their mistresses. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that "naturally" inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Ethnology -- Egypt. Sex role -- Egypt -- 21st century Women -- Sexual behavior -- Egypt -- 21st century Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century Man-woman relationships -- Egypt -- 21st century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Ethnology Man-woman relationships Manners and customs Sex role Social conditions Women -- Sexual behavior Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 21st century Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject Egypt Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477317051 1477317058 147731704X 9781477317044 1477317074 9781477317075 9781477317068 1477317066

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