Hi Everybody,
This may be of interest to some of you.
Best Wishes,
Samia Jalal
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From: Lahoucine Ouzgane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Islamic Masculinities
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CFP: Islamic Masculinities
(Apologies in advance for cross-postings. Please forward to interested
colleagues and post where appropriate.)
_Men and Masculinities_ seeks empirical and theoretical articles for an
upcoming multidisciplinary issue devoted to ISLAMIC MASCULINITIES.
In the last two decades, attention to gender issues in the Middle East and
the rest of the Islamic world has been focussed almost exclusively on a
quest to understand femininity--with Muslim women's oppression, the practice
of female genital mutilation, and the everlasting question of the veil
drawing most of the scrutiny. But masculinities in Islamic cultures have so
far not received as much attention as they deserve.
The broad title of this issue allows for multiple points of entry:
* constructions of masculinities;
* questions of masculinity, maleness, and the male body;
* representations of the male body in cultural texts and in the media;
* sexual practices and sexual identities;
* race, ethnicity, class--and masculinities;
* male-female relationships;
* relationships between patriarchy and dominant masculinities;
* relationships between concepts of masculinity and
nationalism/fundamentalism;
* masculinities in the Islamic Diaspora.
Other relevant topics are welcome.
Please submit essays of up-to 7000 words by January 14, 2000
to
Dr. Lahoucine Ouzgane
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2E5
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