What About Masculinity?

Scholarly attention to gender issues in the Middle East has been focused almost exclusively on a quest to understand femininity. There are as yet no significant studies that make Muslim men visible as gendered subjects, and masculinity in Arab Islamic cultures has so far remained an unrecognized and...

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Main Author: Aghacy, Samira (author)
Format: article
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4797
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/article/view/370
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Summary:Scholarly attention to gender issues in the Middle East has been focused almost exclusively on a quest to understand femininity. There are as yet no significant studies that make Muslim men visible as gendered subjects, and masculinity in Arab Islamic cultures has so far remained an unrecognized and unacknowledged category viewed in essentialist terms and perceived as natural, and self-evident.