Reconceiving Muslim Men

Marcia C. Inhorn

ISBN 10: 178533882X / ISBN 13: 9781785338823

Published by Berghahn Books, GB, 2018

About this Item

Through nuanced anthropological accounts of Muslim men's everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West, Reconceiving Muslim Men challenges pervasive Western stereotypes of Muslim men as patriarchal and oppressive by demonstrating instead the diverse and creative ways in which they seek love and fulfillment within marriage, family, and community life. The volume showcases their humanity, exploring how they enact sexuality, reproduction, parenting, familial caregiving, and civic engagements amid economic and political precarity, and seek to challenge broader systems of patriarchy and oppression while fulfilling their masculine commitments to the women, children, and families they love.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reconceiving Muslim Men
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178533882X
• ISBN 13: 9781785338823
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West. Amid increasing political turmoil and economic precarity, Muslim men around the world are enacting nurturing roles as husbands, sons, fathers, and community members, thereby challenging broader systems of patriarchy and oppression. By focusing on the ways in which Muslim men care for those they love, this volume challenges stereotypes and showcases Muslim men’s humanity.

About the Authors

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. She is also co-editor of this Berghahn Book series on Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality.

Nefissa Naguib is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Much of her work has focused on rupture and displacement, particularly in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. She has written on memory and diaspora, food activism and the politics of water, and local responses to global crises. Current research centers on Syrian refugees arriving in Norway by way of the Arctic Circle. Her most recent monograph is Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt.