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



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Autore: Hasso Frances Susan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Consuming desires [[electronic resource] ] : family crisis and the state in the Middle East / / Frances S. Hasso Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7640-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465258803321
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