My latest monograph, Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine, is published by Cambridge University Press in hardback and as a Creative Commons open access book. It will be published in paperback in 2023 or 2024.
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Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
My 2011 monograph study (published by Stanford University Press) examines and explains the rise of family crisis discourse on marriage, sex, and divorce in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, with wider valence for the region. In addition to addressing informal and formal practices, the book deeply divides into the intersections of governmentality, state law, and Islamic shari`a.
Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East by Frances S. Hasso
Frances S. Hasso 