The New Arab Man, Lords Club Affiliation

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The 'New' Arab Man: Middle Eastern, Muslim men are often represented as 'zealots' and oppressors of women. But Laurie Taylor hears how 2 decades of research by the Professor of Anthropology, Marcia Inhorn, is undermining such cultural stereotypes. Her study found that ordinary Arab men who confront childlessness and infertility are re-thinking conventional masculinity. Also, research by Matthew Bond into elite club membership in the House of Lords. Is a British establishment still evident in the club community? Karel Williams, Professor of Sociology, joins the discussion.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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1:13.0	Hello. It was my friend Paul who first suggested back in the early 1970s that I might like to join the men's
1:20.1	group that had just been founded at the university. It sounds like a good idea I said assuming with what I now know was
1:25.4	false consciousness that such a group
1:27.4	would be able to take a stand against some of those militant new women on campus
1:30.7	who seem to spend all their time finding faults with men.
1:34.0	Paul quickly put me right.
1:36.0	Men's groups explained weren't set up to combat women's liberation, they were there to compliment
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