TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corinne Fortier
AU  - Aymon Kreil
AU  - Irene Maffi
PY  - 2018
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-6533
SN  - 9783034327800
TI  - Reinventing Love?
T2  - Gender, intimacy and romance in the Arab world
DO  - 10.3726/b10848
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055204
N2  - Affective and sexual intimacy are sensitive issues in the Arab World. However moments of closeness between men and women have always been possible, perhaps even more so today, thanks to the spread of mixed-gender social spaces and new communication technologies. Further, while undeniably embedded in gendered relations of power, love is a highly ambivalent field of experience that involves a good deal of negotiation between partners and with family and can stand in tense relationship to patriarchal domination. Often, however, romantic love is contrasted with love after marriage. This book precisely explores the relationship between love and marriage in the contemporary Arab world. By sketching the paths of amorous encounters in the Arab world, it introduces the reader to the conflicting configurations that shape love practices, providing new insights into a still-emerging field of inquiry. It examines notions of gender, intimacy and love through ethnographic case studies that offer an insight into current dynamics in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
KW  - romantic love, relationship, women, marriage, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, sexuality
LA  - German
ER  -