Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon by Lara Deeb Paperback Book

Description: Love Across Difference by Lara Deeb Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "mixed" couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Through stories of Lebanese couples, Love Across Difference challenges readers to rethink categories of difference and imagine possibilities for social change.Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. In the drama that ensues as women and young men make their own marital choices, they push gender boundaries and reveal the ultimately empty nature of sect as a category of social difference. Love wont end sectarianism, but it can contribute to reducing sects social power. Through the example of Lebanon, we can learn about our own social worlds, about the assumptions we make around social difference, and about how people react when forced to change their ideas of who can be made kin through marriage. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Lara Deeb is Professor of Anthropology and MENA Studies at Scripps College, author of An Enchanted Modern (2006), and coauthor of Leisurely Islam (2013) and Anthropologys Politics (Stanford, 2016). Table of Contents Introduction: Love Across Difference1. Who Counts as Different, Anyway2. Who Will You Marry3. How Will You Marry4. Which Ultimatum, Elopement or Time5. Its All about Status6. Unknown Geographies, Unknown People7. Islamophobia and Other Discriminations8. What about Faith9. Shunning Is Powerful10. Mixed Families in a Divided WorldConclusion: Can Mixed Marriage Change the WorldAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex Review "Lara Deeb masterfully shows how sect feels real and is maintained through macroeconomic and political dynamics and in everyday life. Love Across Difference details the complex and intersectional meaning of sect in social life, offering a nuanced analysis rooted in extensive field research across Lebanon."—Melani Cammett, Harvard University"A crucial anthropology of sectarianism as a contemporary social world—inhabited, experienced, and defied by ordinary people. Lara Deebs book is a powerful corrective to the idea of a static sectarian Lebanon and Middle East."—Ussama Makdisi, University of California, Berkeley"Through fluid storytelling, Lara Deebs Love Across Difference graciously welcomes readers outside its discipline: her argument is eminently accessible to the generalist and utterly engrossing to seasoned readers in Middle Eastern womens studies. Readers will emerge with a more nuanced understanding of the honeycomb complexity of Lebanese society."—Mohja Kahf, author of My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit Details ISBN1503640752 Author Lara Deeb Publisher Stanford University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781503640757 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-10-08 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Mixed Marriage in Lebanon Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2024-10-08 DEWEY 306.84509569 Illustrations 2 maps ISBN-10 1503640752 UK Release Date 2024-10-08 Pages 316 Alternative 9781503640054 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161760882;

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