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Romanticizing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Identity, and Ideology

Romanticizing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Identity, and Ideology

Aldoughli, Rahaf

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Series: Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1526198045
ISBN13: 9781526198044
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists' fascination with Romanticized and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European social philosophy, and traces the implementation and impacts of these ideologies in the Syrian context. Emphasising the emergence of new forms of public gendered identity in Syria as a unifying feature of nationalism bound closely with the stability of the regime, the book shows how Romantic, muscular nationalism first rose to hegemony and then was shattered by its inherent violence, contradictions and inequalities. The final chapter closes by considering how a new vision of pluralism and civic belonging is today challenging the Romanticized Baathist ideal in contention for Syria's future.

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