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Title Intimate selving in Arab families : gender, self, and identity / edited by Suad Joseph
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1999

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Description xv, 318 pages ; 23 cm
Series Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
Contents Introduction: Theories and Dynamics of Gender, Self, and Identity in Arab Families / Suad Joseph -- Pt. 1. Intimate Selving as a Practice of Biography and Autobiography in Arab Families. 1. Teta, Mother, and I / Jean Said Makdisi. 2. Searching for Baba / Suad Joseph. 3. The Poet Who Helped Shape My Childhood / Maysoon Melek. 4. My Sister Isabelle / Scheherazade -- Pt. 2. Ethnographic and Historical Excavations of the Self. 5. Brother-Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph. 6. Wives or Daughters: Structural Differences Between Urban and Bedouin Lebanese Co-wives / Najla S. Hamadeh. 7. My Son/Myself, My Mother/Myself: Paradoxical Relationalities of Patriarchal Connectivity / Suad Joseph. 8. The Microdynamics of Patriarchal Change in Egypt and the Development of an Alternative Discourse on Mother-Daughter Relations: The Case of 'A'isha Taymur / Mervat F. Hatem -- Pt. 3. Literary Imaginings of Intimate Selving
9. Patriarchy and Imperialism: Father-Son and British-Egyptian Relations in Najib Mahfuz's Trilogy / Soraya Altorki. 10. Constructions of Masculinity in Two Egyptian Novels / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index
Subject Families -- Arab countries -- Psychological aspects.
Sex role -- Arab countries -- Psychological aspects.
Self.
Author Joseph, Suad.
LC no. 99016643
ISBN 0815628080 cloth alkaline paper
081562817X paper alkaline paper