Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303) and index.
Contents:
Intimate selving as a practice of biography and autobiography in Arab families. The context ; Teta, mother, and I / Jean Said Makdisi ; Searching for Baba / Suad Joseph ; The poet who helped me shape my childhood / Maysoon Melek ; My sister Isabelle / Scheherazade -- Ethnographic and historical excavations of the self. The context ; Brother-sister relationships: connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph ; Wives or daughters: structural differences between urban and Bedouin Lebanese co-wives / Najla S. Hamedeh ; My son/myself, my mother/myself: paradoxical relationalities of patriarchal connectivity / Suad Joseph ; The microdynamics of patriarchal change in Egypt and the developemnt of an alternative discourse on mother-daughter relations: the case of ʻAʼisha Taymur -- Literary imaginings of intimate selving. The context ; Patriarchy and imperialism: father-son and British-Egyptian relations in Najib Mahfuz's trilogy / Soraya Altorki -- Constructions of masculinity in two Egyptian novels / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi.
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