Reconceiving Muslim Men

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. She is also co-editor of this Berghahn Book series on Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality.

“Reconceiving Muslim Men makes a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Muslim men, an excellent companion volume to the more theoretical discussions of masculinity, which largely focus on Western contexts, and a useful reminder of the need to differentiate between discourse and practice in exploring gender issues more broadly.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)“…a significant, highly interesting, and at times heartbreaking book… One of this book’s many strengths is that it foregrounds the ways in which Muslim men are normal. Having to show that Muslim men are human, and stressing it to resist their demonization, is highly important and timely, given current political discourse.” • Medical Anthropological Quarterly“This volume is an important correction to various types of literature, from within anthropology as well as from other disciplinary fields… it will become a significant contribution to the field of masculinity in general and to Muslim men in particular.” • Leif Manger, University of Bergen

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMarcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa NaguibPART I: MUSLIM MEN IN LOVE AND MARRIAGEChapter 1. Gender Troubles in Shatila, Lebanon: Bodies that Matter (the Fidāʾiyyīn’s Heroism) and Undoing Gender (the Shabāb’s Burden)Gustavo BarbosaChapter 2. A Man in Love: Men, Love, and Hopes for Marriage in CairoMari NorbakkChapter 3. Shaping a "Different" Masculinity: Subjectivity, Agency, and Cultural Idioms among Afghan Pashtun MenAndrea ChiovendaChapter 4. From Soft Patriarch to Companionate Partner: Muslim Masculinity in Java since the "New Order"Nancy J. Smith-HefnerChapter 5. "Supportive" Masculinities and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Changing Gender Relations in Contemporary Urban IndiaGauri PathakPART II: MUSLIM FAMILY LIFE AND MEN AS CARETAKERSChapter 6. Teaching Him to Care: Labor and the Making of Working-Class Men in Urban EgyptFarha GhannamChapter 7. The New Kurdish Man: Men as Refuge-Granters, Doting Family Members, and RomanticsDiane E. KingChapter 8. Am I Muslim or Just Kazakh? Politics of Care in Postsocialist KazakhstanAinur BegimChapter 9. Brothers in Islam: Faith and Care among Muslim Men in BrazilGisele Fonseca ChagasChapter 10. How to Be a Man: Everyday Care and Piety among South Asian Muslim Men in BarcelonaGuillermo Martín-SáizPART III: MUSLIM MEN IN PRECARIOUS TIMESChapter 11. General Tarzan the Coach: Humanitarian Detours in the Career of a Central African Man-in-ArmsLouisa LombardChapter 12. "And What Will Our Children Eat?" Dispossession and Food Insecurity among Makonde Men on Tanzania’s Swahili CoastVinay R. KamatChapter 13. Moral Masculine Intimacy: The Care and Protection of the Living and the Dead among Muslim Migrant Men Living in GreeceTina PalivosChapter 14. Casualties of Fatherhood: Syrian Refugee Men and Nurturance in the ArcticNefissa NaguibChapter 15. Searching for Love and Test-Tube Babies: Iraqi Refugee Men in Reproductive Exile on the Margins of DetroitMarcia C. InhornIndex