New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities & Islam in the Middle E

by Marcia C. Inhorn

Book Overview

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691148899
• ISBN13: 9780691148892
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"