edited by L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster
Vanderbilt University Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-8265-0433-3 | Paper: 978-0-8265-0432-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8265-0434-0 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-0-8265-0435-7 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification HQ18.M628
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.70956

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices.

The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged and Married, and It's Complicated. The allusion to categories of relationship status on social media is at once a nod to the compulsion to categorize, recognition of the many ways that categorization is rarely straightforward, and acknowledgment that much of the intimate lives described by the contributors is mediated by online technologies.