LEADER 03887nam 2200601 450 001 9910793135603321 005 20230126220201.0 010 $a1-4773-1705-8 024 7 $a10.7560/317044 035 $a(CKB)4100000006669724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5509443 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5509443 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11607851 035 $a(OCoLC)1051221980 035 $a(DE-B1597)586722 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477317051 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006669724 100 $a20181012d2018 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLove, sex, and desire in modern Egypt $enavigating the margins of respectability /$fL. L. Wynn 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 311 $a1-4773-1704-X 311 $a1-4773-1707-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeigners like things looking old and dark, not shiny -- Mimesis, kinship, gift, and other things that bind us in love and desire -- "Why can't you study respectable women?" -- Mimesis, genre, gender, and sexuality in Middle East tourism -- Demimonde : belly dancers, extramarital affairs, and the respectability of women -- Gift, prostitute: money and intimacy -- "Honor killing" : on anthropological writing in an international political economy of representations -- Kinship, honor, and shame -- Love, revolution, and intimate violence -- Epilogue. Fifteen years later. 330 $aCairo 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. 606 $aEthnology$zEgypt 606 $aSex role$zEgypt$y21st century 606 $aWomen$xSexual behavior$zEgypt$y21st century 606 $aWomen$zEgypt$xSocial conditions$y21st century 606 $aMan-woman relationships$zEgypt$y21st century 607 $aEgypt$xSocial life and customs$y21st century 607 $aEgypt$xSocial conditions$y21st century 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aWomen$xSexual behavior 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMan-woman relationships 676 $a306.0962 700 $aWynn$b L. L.$f1971-$01544539 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793135603321 996 $aLove, sex, and desire in modern Egypt$93798845 997 $aUNINA