Consuming desires : family crisis and the state in the Middle East / / Frances S. Hasso

• Autore: Hasso Frances Susan
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.81095357
• Soggetto topico: Marriage - Egypt; Marriage - United Arab Emirates; Man-woman relationships - Egypt; Man-woman relationships - United Arab Emirates; Family policy - Egypt; Family policy - United Arab Emirates
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Legal governmentality and the national family -- National families in "crisis" -- Transnational "invasions" and emerging selves and desires -- Improving the national family.
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. These marriages allow for men and women to engage in sexual relationships, but do not require that they register the marriage with the state, that they live together, or that the man be financially responsible for the wife or household. In Consuming Desires, Frances Hasso explores the extent to which these new relationship forms are used and to what ends, as well as the legal and cultural responses to such innovations. She outlines what is at stake for the various groups—the state, religious leaders, opposition groups, young people, men and women of different classes and locations, and feminist organizations—in arguments for and against these relationship forms.
• Titolo autorizzato: Consuming desires
• ISBN: 0-8047-7640-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910657827503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II