A key issue discussed is the ways that the ideology of masculinity supports a practice that is used to maintain the power of heterosexual men relative to women and homosexual men. One theme of the work is the ways in which individual interpretations of Islam are connected to a man’s gender, and hence the ways some men utilize a particular conservative Islamic gender code to make sense of the changes taking place around them. In this way, masculinity intersects with religion, politics, social practice and economic action in a vast and intricate web of connection. The work places the current conceptions of masculinity in the Moroccan historical context, as well as in the larger political context of the Middle East and North Africa. Hence, portraying the gender politics in these fortyeight men’s discourses in this one geographic location provides a framework for understanding the tensions and struggles among men and masculinities globally.