National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective: The Homophobic Argument

ISBN-13: 9780367332815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Achim Rohde; Christina Von Braun; Stefanie Schuler-Springorum

Opis

This pathbreaking book focusses on perceptions of  'self’ and ’other’ in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from a gendered perspective. It deals with anti-LGBTQI as well as LGBTQI-friendly aspects of modern culture and politics in countries within these regions.

Spis treści

Introduction. National politics and sexuality in transregional perspective: The homophobic argument (Achim Rohde, Christina von Braun and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum)  PART I Europe  1. A post- progressive nation: Homophobia, Islam, and the new social question in the Netherlands (Paul Mepschen)  2. Becoming family: Orientalism, homonormativity, and queer asylum in Norway (Deniz Akin and Stine Helena Bang Svendsen)  3. Homophobia as identity politics and a tool for political manipulation in the former Yugoslavia (Hana Ćopić)  4. Contemporary art versus homophobia: Selected Eastern European cases (Pawel Leszkowicz)  5. "How gay is Germany?": Homosexuality, politics, and racism in historical perspective (Claudia Bruns)  PART II Middle East / North Africa  6 "An oriental vice": Representations of sodomy in early Zionist discourse (Ofri Ilani)  7. Arabic literary narratives on homosexuality (Jolanda Guardi)  8. Gay in North African literature? (Max Kramer)  9. The struggle of LGBT people for recognition in Turkey: An analysis of legal discourses (Pinar Ilkkaracan)  10. Gays, cross- dressers, and Emos: Non-normative masculinities in militarized Iraq (Achim Rohde)  Index