LEADER 04226nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910815220003321 005 20240314023228.0 010 $a0-8047-8791-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804787918 035 $a(CKB)2670000000397942 035 $a(EBL)1329810 035 $a(OCoLC)854977548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950363 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12448292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950363 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11005927 035 $a(PQKB)10321157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1329810 035 $a(DE-B1597)564683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804787918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1329810 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10739981 035 $a(OCoLC)859581844 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769980 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000397942 100 $a20130531d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnna---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLive and die like a man $egender dynamics in urban Egypt /$fFarha Ghannam 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-8328-4 311 0 $a0-8047-8329-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Masculinity in Urban Egypt --$t1. Uncertain Trajectories --$t2. Plans and Stands --$t3. Women and the Making of Proper Men --$t4. Gendered Violence --$t5. Sickness, Death, and a Good Ending --$tConclusion. Masculine Trajectories and National Paths --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWatching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender inequalities are hotly debated by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, and ordinary citizens throughout Egypt. Live and Die Like a Man presents a unique twist on traditional understandings of gender and gender roles, shifting the attention to men and exploring how they are collectively "produced" as gendered subjects. It traces how masculinity is continuously maintained and reaffirmed by both men and women under changing socio-economic and political conditions. Over a period of nearly twenty years, Farha Ghannam lived and conducted research in al-Zawiya, a low-income neighborhood not far from Tahrir Square in northern Cairo. Detailing her daily encounters and ongoing interviews, she develops life stories that reveal the everyday practices and struggles of the neighborhood over the years. We meet Hiba and her husband as they celebrate the birth of their first son and begin to teach him how to become a man; Samer, a forty-year-old man trying to find a suitable wife; Abu Hosni, who struggled with different illnesses; and other local men and women who share their reactions to the uprising and the changing situation in Egypt. Against this backdrop of individual experiences, Ghannam develops the concept of masculine trajectories to account for the various paths men can take to embody social norms. In showing how men work to realize a "male ideal," she counters the prevalent dehumanizing stereotypes of Middle Eastern men all too frequently reproduced in media reports, and opens new spaces for rethinking patriarchal structures and their constraining effects on both men and women. 606 $aMasculinity$zEgypt 606 $aMen$xSocialization$zEgypt 606 $aSex role$zEgypt 606 $aSocial norms$zEgypt 607 $aEgypt$xSocial conditions$y1981- 615 0$aMasculinity 615 0$aMen$xSocialization 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aSocial norms 676 $a305.310962 700 $aGhannam$b Farha$f1963-$0275886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815220003321 996 $aLive and Die Like a Man$91762988 997 $aUNINA