Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance

This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the caf s of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the Islamic Ummah. It goes far beyond the traditional notion that Islamic masculinities are inseparable from the control of women, and shows how the relationship between spirituality and masculinity is experienced quite differently from the prevailing Western norms.

Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.48w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312235093

About the Author
Marianne Novy is Professor of English and former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of"Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare" and the editor of "Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare."