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Author Hasso, Frances Susan, author

Title Consuming desires : family crisis and the state in the Middle East / Frances S. Hasso.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Legal governmentality and the national family -- National families in "crisis" -- Transnational "invasions" and emerging selves and desires -- Improving the national family.
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Summary Consuming Desires examines new forms of marriage emerging in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in reaction, in part, to the governments' increasing attempts to control sexuality with shari'a law.
Language English.
Subject Marriage -- Egypt.
Marriage -- United Arab Emirates.
Man-woman relationships -- Egypt.
Man-woman relationships -- United Arab Emirates.
Family policy -- Egypt.
Family policy -- United Arab Emirates.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Family policy
Man-woman relationships
Marriage
Egypt
United Arab Emirates
RELIGION / Islam / Law
Other Form: Print version: Hasso, Frances Susan. Consuming desires. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011 9780804761550 (DLC) 2010030287 (OCoLC)630479896
ISBN 9780804776400 (electronic bk.)
0804776407 (electronic bk.)
9780804761550
0804761558
9780804761567
0804761566
Standard No. 10.1515/9780804776400 doi
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