By concentrating on the shared ground of postcolonial, masculine subjectivities, Postcolonial Masculinities looks beyond the dissonance often iterated between the apparently rational Western man and the apparently oppressive, patriarchal Middle Eastern man. Shedding light on the shared and distinctive aspects of masculinities across the Middle East and the West, whilst illuminating the influences upon them, this book will appeal to social scientists with interests in cultural studies, masculinities, psychoanalytic theory, gender and sexuality, and colonialism and postcolonialism.

Chapter 1 In the Shadow of the Other, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 2 Landscapes of Masculinities, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 3 The Necessity of the Other, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 4 Visceral Anxiety: Inhabiting Fear, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 5 Insidious Humiliation: Invidious Shame, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 6 Precarious Power, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 7 Cutting Tails, Amal Treacher Kabesh; Chapter 8 Silences, Spectres and Shards, Amal Treacher Kabesh; afterword Afterword, Amal Treacher Kabesh;