Open AccessWhat About Masculinity?
Author(s) -
Samira Aghacy
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.370
Subject(s) - masculinity , essentialism , femininity , gender studies , islam , natural (archaeology) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , history , archaeology
Scholarly attention to gender issues in the Middle East has been focused almost exclusively on a quest to understand femininity. There are as yet no significant studies that make Muslim men visible as gendered subjects, and masculinity inArab Islamic cultures has so far remained an unrecognized and unacknowledged category viewed in essentialist terms and perceived as natural, and self-evident.