Intimate Selving: Gender, Self and Identity in Arab Families

The study of relationships--a topic which has received considerable attention in Europe, the United States, and parts of Asia, until now has not been addressed in the Arab world.

Here for the first time are articles written by native feminist scholars that focus on intimate Arab familial relationships and provide a scholarly discussion of gendering of the self (the process of intimate selving) in the Arab community.
The book is divided into three parts: biographical and autobiographical; ethnographic; and literary accounts in which the authors identify key family relationships--mother-son, brother-sister, mother-daughter-granddaughter, co-wives, and father-daughter--and explore them in terms of shaping and defining gender in relation to others.

Author: Suad Joseph
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 12/01/1999
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.08w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780815628170