One: Intimate Selving as a Practice of Biography and Autobiography in Arab Families; The Context; 1. Teta, Mother, and I -Jean Said Makdisi; 2. Searching for Baba -Suad Joseph; 3. The Poet Who Helped Shape My Childhood -Maysoon Melek; 4. My Sister Isabelle -Scheherazade; Part Two: Ethnographic and Historical Excavations of the Self; The Context; 5. Brother-Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon -Suad Joseph; 6. Wives or Daughters: Structural Differences Between Urban and Bedouin Lebanese Co-wives -Najla S. Hamadeh; 7. My Son/Myself, My Mother/Myself: Paradoxical Relationalities of Patriarchal Connectivity -Suad Joseph; 8. The Microdynamics of Patriarchal Change in Egypt and the Development of an Alternative Discourse on Mother-Daughter Relations: The Case of 'A'isha Taymur -Mervat F. Hatem; Part Three: Literary Imaginings of Intimate Selving; The Context; 9. Patriarchy and Imperialism: Father-Son and British-Egyptians Relations in Najib Mahfuz's Trilogy -Soraya Altorki; 10. Constructions of Masculinity in Two Egyptian Novels -Magda M. Al-Nowaihi; Notes; References; Index

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