Everyday Intimacies of the Middle East - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822363909 ISBN 13: 9780822363903

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2016

Synopsis

A special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
This issue provides an area-studies perspective on intimacy and explores the analytic, theoretical, and political work that intimacy promises as a concept. The contributors explore how multiple domains and forms of intimacies are defined and transformed across the cultural and social worlds of the Middle East, looking in particular at Egypt, Turkey, and Israel. Focusing on everyday constructions of intimacies, the contributors engage with questions about how we should calibrate the evolving nature of intimacy in times of rapid transition, what intimacy means for individual and social lives, and what social, political, and economic possibilities it creates. Topics include physical exercise, Turkish beauty salons, transnational surrogacy arrangements, gender reassignment, and coffee shops as intimate spaces for men outside the family.

Article Contributors: Aymon Kreil, Claudia Liebelt, Sibylle Lustenberger, Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Asli Zengin

Review and Third Space Contributors: Dena Al-Adeeb, Adam George Dunn, Rima Dunn, Meral Düzgün, Iklim Goksel, Didem Havlioglu, Sarah Ihmoud, Sarah Irving, Adi Kuntsman, Shahrzad Mojab, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Rachel Rothendler, Afiya Zia

About this title

About the Author:

Asli Zengin is Allen-Berenson Fellow in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.

Sertaç Sehlikoglu is Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0822363909
• ISBN 13: 9780822363903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165
• Editor: Zengin Asli, Sehlikoglu Sertaç