Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures 1st Edition by Gul Ozyegin ISBN 978-1472414526 1472414527

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ISBN 10:   1472414527

ISBN 13: 978-1472414526

Author: Gul Ozyegin

A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender – their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations – but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a ’Muslim’ identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body. Several overarching questions frame the volume: How does studying gender and sexuality expand and enrich our understanding of Muslim-majority countries, historically and at present? How does the embodiment of ’Muslim’ identity get reconfigured in the context of twenty-first-century globalism? What analytical questions are raised about ’Islam’ when its diverse meanings and multifaceted expressions are closely examined? What roles do gender and sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious, nationalistic, communal, and militaristic identities? How have power struggles been signified in and on the bodies of women and sexuality? How have global dynamics, such as the intensification and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affected changing dynamics of gender and sexuality in specific locales? Here global dynamics touch down in diverse contexts, from masculinity crises around war disabilities, transnational marriages, and fathering in Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan; to Muslim femininity narratives around female genital cutting, sexuality in divorce proceedings, and spouse selection; to gender crossing practices as well as protesting bodies, queering voices, and claims of authenticity in literary and political discourse. This book brings exciting research on these and other topics together in one place, allowing the essa

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Challenged Masculinities

• Chapter 1: In Vitro Nationalism – Salih Can Açiksöz

• Chapter 2: Challenged Masculinities – Mustafa Abdalla

• Chapter 3: Of Migration, Marriage, and Men – Aisha Anees Malik

• Chapter 4: “Men Are Less Manly, Women Are More Feminine” – Cenk Özbay

• Chapter 5: Between Ideals and Enactments – Fatma Umut Beşpınar

• Chapter 6: The Janissaries and Their Bedfellows – Serkan Delice

Part 2: Producing Muslim Femininities, Sexualities, and Gender Relations

• Chapter 7: The Continuous Making of Pure Womanhood among Muslim Women in Cairo – Maria Frederika Malmström

• Chapter 8: Introduction to “In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting” – Victoria A. Castillo

• Chapter 9: In Conversation on Female Genital Cutting – Goran A. Sabir Zangana, Maria Frederika Malmström, Faith Barton

• Chapter 10: “I’ve Had to Be the Man in This Marriage” – Jessica Carlisle

• Chapter 11: Negotiating Courtship Practices and Redefining Tradition – Lindsey A. Conklin, Sandra Nasser El-Dine

Part 3: Mahrem, the Gaze, and Intimate Gender and Sexual Crossings

• Chapter 12: Identity in Alterity – Saadia Abid

• Chapter 13: The Daring Mahrem – Sertaç Sehlikoglu

• Chapter 14: Sexing the Hammam – Elyse Semerdjian

Part 4: The Desiring, Protesting Body and Muslim Authenticity in Fiction and Political Discourses

• Chapter 15: Women’s Writing in the Land of Prohibitions – Miral Mahgoub Al-Tahawy

• Chapter 16: Rewriting the Body in the Novels of Contemporary Syrian Women Writers – Martina Censi

• Chapter 17: The Virgin Trials – Sherine Hafez

Part 5: Re-Theorizing Iranian Diaspora and “Islamic Feminism” in Iran

• Chapter 18: Can the Secular Iranian Women’s Activist Speak? – Leila Mouri, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi

• Chapter 19: Queering the “Iranian” and the “Diaspora” of the Iranian Diaspora – Farhang Rouhani

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