Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society/ Lila Abu-Lughod.

PART ONE
The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life

TWO Identity in Relationship 39
Asl: The Blood of Ancestry 41
Gardba: The Blood of Relationship 49
Maternal Ties and a Common Life 59
Identification and Sharing 65
Identity in a Changing World 70

THREE Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy 78
Autonomy and Hierarchy 78
The Family Model of Hierarchy 81
Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy 85
Limits on Power 99
Hasham: Honor of the Weak 103

FOUR Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality 118
Gender Ideology and Hierarchy 118
The Social Value of Male and Female 119
The "Natural" Bases of Female Moral
Inferiority 124
Red Belts and Black Veils:
The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality 134
Sexuality and the Social Order 143
Hasham Reconsidered: Deference and
the Denial of Sexuality 152
The Meaning of Veiling 159

PART TWO
Discourses on Sentiment

FIVE The Poetry of Personal Life 171
On Poetry in Context 171
The Poetry of Self and Sentiment 177

six- Honor and Poetic Vulnerability 186
Discourses on Loss 186
Matters of Pride 187
Responding to Death 197
The Discourse of Honor 204

SEVEN Modesty and the Poetry of Love 208
Discourses on Love 208
Star-Crossed Lovers 209
An Arranged Marriage 215
Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny 222

EIGHT Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment 233
The Social Contexts of Discourse 234
Protective Veils of Form 238
The Meaning of Poetry 240
The Politics of Sentiment 248
Ideology and Experience 255