Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt : navigating the margins of respectability. N2 - Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. AB - Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Love, sex, and desire in modern Egypt navigating the margins of respectability. Department of Anthropology. Abstract Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Social Relations.
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A bride for the summer
Gender : sex and fertility - non-royal evidence. The wish to have children was essential for the ancient Egyptians, as is clearly expresses in their literature. Infant mortality must have been very high and many children were needed so that at least some of them could survive to adulthood. The ancient Egyptians did not have any pension system: children might be treated as security in old age or in times of illness. The following figures need to be viewed in this context.
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From sexual innuendo to 'trial' marriages — the ancient Egyptians were not so different to us when it came to affairs of the heart. Here, Charlotte Booth explores how the ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley lived and loved. Some may think the behaviour of ancient Egyptians is far removed from that of the modern world but when it comes to the basics of love, sex and marriage, their behaviour is rather familiar. They displayed the same doubts, fears and motivations, and all that separates the ancient Egyptians from the modern world is how such emotions were acted upon. This idea of sex as taboo can be seen as a throwback to the Victorian era, which in itself was a reaction to the lascivious behaviour of the Georgians.
CAIRO Reuters - The year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a Cairo apartment where she was repeatedly gang raped, only to realize that she had become pregnant by one of her attackers. She is one of a growing number of African migrant and refugee women in the Egyptian capital who report abuse, in what rights groups say has become an epidemic of sexual violence that has worsened in recent months. Reuters met five women from Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia at a community center in Cairo, each of whom said she was a victim of violent sexual assault. The year old South Sudanese woman said she was snatched by strangers in a poor neighborhood and brought by a taxi to another area, where a man locked her up in an apartment for three months and repeatedly raped her with friends. She asked not to be identified but agreed to be filmed provided that her face was not visible. A Sudanese woman who gave her name as Bakhtia said she was assaulted by a stranger on the street in what then became a gang attack. I tried to defend myself, but how can I defend myself?
