1st Edition
Postcolonial Masculinities Emotions, Histories and Ethics
By Amal Treacher Kabesh
Copyright 2013
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring the similarities and differences between and across masculinities in the Middle East and the West, Postcolonial Masculinities avoids the constant reinforcement of divisions and stereotypes created by the process of 'othering' and the problematic discourse of the clash of civilisations, examining instead how subjectivities in Western and Arab societies are intertwined, operating through... Read more
Chapter 1 In the Shadow of the Other, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 2 Landscapes of Masculinities, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 3 The Necessity of the Other, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 4 Visceral Anxiety: Inhabiting Fear, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 5 Insidious Humiliation: Invidious Shame, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 6 Precarious Power, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 7 Cutting Tails, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 8 Silences, Spectres and Shards, Amal Treacher Kabesh; afterword Afterword, Amal Treacher Kabesh;
Biography
Amal Treacher Kabesh is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK.
’This book is an extraordinary achievement. Kabesh manages at once to convey the overlapping histories of British and Egyptian masculinities and their distinct character. Interweaving autobiography - her own and others’ - history, psychoanalysis, fiction, sociology and ethnography, Kabesh troubles masculinity, while exploring its complex investments and our investments in it. This text unsettles our assumptions about men, about cultural difference, and about how we relate to one another at the profoundest level.’ Clare Hemmings, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ’Amal Treacher Kabesh has written a remarkable and timely book. Rooted in her family experience, in political history and in psychosocial studies, it lovingly and yet excoriatingly interrogates contemporary emotional life. Her account of Egyptian and British masculinities provides an incisive analysis of what it means, as Eastern or Western subjects, to live in the shadow of the other.’ Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, UK
