Beach Politics
Gender and Sexuality in Dahab
Mustafa Abdalla(Author)
The American University in Cairo Press
Published on 15. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-977-416-013-4 (ISBN)
Description
Addressing the nexus of tourism, sexuality, and poverty, "Beach Politics" explores sexual interactions between Egyptian men and foreign women in Dahab and South Sinai. Analyzing their constructions of sexuality, risk, and reproductive health, it examines these interactions in the light of globalization, tourism, and the hegemonic demands of family and gender within Egyptian society. Central to Abdalla's analysis are the ways in which working-class Egyptian men living in Dahab rely on their sexuality as a survival strategy in the face of an increasingly globalized economy. Abdalla shows that in a context of tourism and class struggle, 'urfi marriage and sexuality emerge as counter-cultural strategies for surviving poverty.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cairo
Egypt
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-977-416-013-4 (9789774160134)
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Mustafa Abdalla is a Ph.D. candidate at the Free University of Berlin. He holds an MA from the American University in Cairo, where his master's thesis, on which this paper is based, won the Magda Al Nowaihi award for gender studies.