Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa is a timely volume, since academic interest in masculinities is carving a greater space for itself day by day in area studies, which have been spending greater energy in women’s studies to discuss gender. Masculinities have been invisible to the academics for a long time, but now critical masculinity studies is trending. Edited by Mohja Kaf and Nadine Sinno, this valuable collection of sixteen articles illuminates how masculinities, their anxieties, crises, and so-called toxicity, are relevant issues in the discussion of European imperialism and the backlash it caused, authoritarian state institutions, mentality of reaction and revolt, and also diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and malpractices. The collection has a queer-inclusive view that aims to shed light on the processes during which masculinities are constructed and deconstructed, and it also historicizes masculinities by making the colonial and the postcolonial mentalities face...
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July 01 2022
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse
. Mohja Kaf and Nadine Sinno, eds. Cairo
: American University in Cairo Press
, 2021
. xv + 338
pages. isbn9789774169755.
Çimen Günay-Erkol
ÇIMEN GÜNAY-ERKOL is associate professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Özyeğin University and a member of the Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities. Contact: cimen.gunay@ozyegin.edu.tr.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
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Çimen Günay-Erkol; Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 July 2022; 18 (2): 293–295. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767926
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