Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society/
Lila Abu-Lughod.
- Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.
- xxxix, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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
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