Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability

Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability /

Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability--and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah's friend is a prostitute or a virgin; M...

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Main Author: Wynn, L. L., 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Egypt.
Sex role > Egypt > 21st century.
Women > Sexual behavior > Egypt > 21st century.
Women > Egypt > Social conditions > 21st century.
Man-woman relationships > Egypt > 21st century.
Egypt > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Egypt > Social conditions > 21st century.
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