Sex, Islam and Intimacy in the Contemporary Middle East
The Politics of Patriarchy
Sex, Islam and Intimacy in the Contemporary Middle East
The Politics of Patriarchy
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Young adults in the Muslim world are expected to negotiate between piety and desire. In a web world where intimate communication can be shielded from view, how do they navigate their way through the powerful gravities of God, love and sexual desire? In Muslim-majority countries, asking about beliefs, about what intimacies should be permissible, let alone about actual behaviors, is a delicate, even dangerous, matter. In this book, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary used Facebook to collect anonymous responses from tens of thousands of young men and women in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey in 2012 and 2018. This is the first multi-national survey of the piety, love, sex, and gender politics that has ever been conducted in this region. They also explore the relationship between young people's intimate lives and their attitudes about the political role of Islam. Their findings challenge the conventional verities and provide a factual basis upon which new generations might chart their way forward and get beyond some of the stereotypes that box them into irreconcilable camps.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Love in the Middle East: The Contradictions of Romance in the Facebook World, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US with Paolo Gardinali, University of California, Santa Barbara, US and Cambria Naslund, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Chapter 3: A Match Made in Heaven: Love and Piety in Spousal Selections, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 4: Critical Theory, Authoritarianism, and the Politics of Lipstick: From the Weimar Republic to the Contemporary Middle East, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 5: Digital Romance: The Sources of Online Love in the Muslim World, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US with Ramina Sotoudeh, Yale University, US
Chapter 6: The Practice of Informal Marriages in the Muslim World: A Comparative Portrait, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 7: Rise of Informal Unions in MENASA: A New Form of Cohabitation, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 8: Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US with
Maria Charles and Rujun Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 9: Patriarchalism, Male Abuse, and the Sources of the #METooMovement in the Muslim Middle East, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, US with Charlotte Hoppen, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Chapter 10: Sex, Love and God in the Muslim World: Thinking the Relation of Intimacy and Politics in Troubled Times, Roger Friedland and Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Product details
| Published | Jun 24 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9780755658923 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 25 b&w images |
| Series | Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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