TY - BOOK ID - 77886083 TI - The New Arab Man PY - 2012 SN - 1280494360 9786613589590 140084262X 9781400842629 9781280494369 9780691148885 0691148880 9780691148892 0691148899 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Fertilization in vitro, Human. KW - Infertility -- Middle East -- Psychological aspects. KW - Man-woman relationships -- Middle East. KW - Masculinity -- Middle East. KW - Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Islam. KW - Men -- Middle East. KW - Masculinity KW - Men KW - Infertility KW - Fertilization in vitro, Human KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Social Sciences KW - Psychology KW - Female-male relationships KW - Male-female relationships KW - Men-women relationships KW - Relationships, Man-woman KW - Woman-man relationships KW - Women KW - Women-men relationships KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Mate selection KW - Babies, Test tube KW - Human fertilization in vitro KW - Human in vitro fertilization KW - Test tube babies KW - Conception KW - Human reproductive technology KW - Involuntary childlessness KW - Sterility KW - Sterility in humans KW - Childlessness KW - Generative organs KW - Fertility, Human KW - Sterilization (Birth control) KW - Human males KW - Human beings KW - Males KW - Effeminacy KW - Masculinity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Psychological aspects KW - Relations with women KW - Relations with men KW - Diseases KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Islam. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886083 AB - Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love. Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology. ER -