Includes bibliographical references and index.

Festivities of violence : circumcision and the making of men / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Abdu Khal -- Circumcision, the first haircut and the Torah : ritual and male identity among the ultraorthodox community of Israel / Yoram Bilu -- 'Our Bülent is now a commando' : military service and manhood in Turkey / Emma Sinclair-Webb -- 'Military service in spite of me' : interview with L.Ş., former conscript -- Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinian Intifada : a cultural politics of violence / Julie Peteet -- The military as a second Bar Mitzvah : combat service as initiation to Zionist masculinity / Danny Kaplan -- Reading 'wiles of women' stories as fictions of masculinity / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Male homosexuality in modern Arabic literature / Frédéric Lagrange -- Farid Shauqi : tough guy, family man, cinema star / Walter Armbrust -- Chewing gum, insatiable women and foreign enemies : male fears and the Arab media / Mai Ghoussoub -- 'That's how I am, world!' : Saddam, manhood and the monolithic image / Hazim Saghieh -- Lentils in Paradise / Moris Farhi -- Not the man my father was / Ahmad Beydoun -- Those two heavy wings of manhood : on moustaches / Hassan Daoud.