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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib

PART I: MUSLIM MEN IN LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Chapter 1. Gender Troubles in Shatila, Lebanon: Bodies that Matter (the Fidāʾiyyīn’s Heroism) and Undoing Gender (the Shabāb’s Burden)
Gustavo Barbosa

Chapter 2. A Man in Love: Men, Love, and Hopes for Marriage in Cairo
Mari Norbakk

Chapter 3. Shaping a "Different" Masculinity: Subjectivity, Agency, and Cultural Idioms among Afghan Pashtun Men
Andrea Chiovenda

Chapter 4. From Soft Patriarch to Companionate Partner: Muslim Masculinity in Java since the "New Order"
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

Chapter 5. "Supportive" Masculinities and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Changing Gender Relations in Contemporary Urban India
Gauri Pathak

PART II: MUSLIM FAMILY LIFE AND MEN AS CARETAKERS

Chapter 6. Teaching Him to Care: Labor and the Making of Working-Class Men in Urban Egypt
Farha Ghannam

Chapter 7. The New Kurdish Man: Men as Refuge-Granters, Doting Family Members, and Romantics
Diane E. King

Chapter 8. Am I Muslim or Just Kazakh? Politics of Care in Postsocialist Kazakhstan
Ainur Begim

Chapter 9. Brothers in Islam: Faith and Care among Muslim Men in Brazil
Gisele Fonseca Chagas

Chapter 10. How to Be a Man: Everyday Care and Piety among South Asian Muslim Men in Barcelona
Guillermo Martín-Sáiz

PART III: MUSLIM MEN IN PRECARIOUS TIMES

Chapter 11. General Tarzan the Coach: Humanitarian Detours in the Career of a Central African Man-in-Arms
Louisa Lombard

Chapter 12. "And What Will Our Children Eat?" Dispossession and Food Insecurity among Makonde Men on Tanzania’s Swahili Coast
Vinay R. Kamat

Chapter 13. Moral Masculine Intimacy: The Care and Protection of the Living and the Dead among Muslim Migrant Men Living in Greece
Tina Palivos

Chapter 14. Casualties of Fatherhood: Syrian Refugee Men and Nurturance in the Arctic
Nefissa Naguib

Chapter 15. Searching for Love and Test-Tube Babies: Iraqi Refugee Men in Reproductive Exile on the Margins of Detroit
Marcia C. Inhorn

Index

Reconceiving Muslim Men

Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib

346 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-882-3 Hb Published (June 2018)

eISBN 978-1-78533-883-0 eBook