Dr. L.L. Wynn talking about her book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

Lakshita Malik, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spent time with Dr. L.L. Wynn talking about her book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press). This work is an interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt. She discusses categories of kinship, tourism, friendship, love, and sex through the lens of “respectability”; and in the process illustrates how “respectability” itself is an unstable category. Not only does it mean different things to different people, it is also something that people (men and women) don’t inherently possess and with which they must continuously grapple.