PART I: INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1. “The disaster of Islamization… where gays are not safe to walk the streets, women are seen as inferior”: Pro-Gay, Anti-Immigrant Politics and the Right, 2000-2017.- Chapter 2. “There were no colored people in the classrooms”: The Disavowal of Heterogeneity.- PART II: PERCEPTIONS.- Chapter 3. “Like the Great Pyramids of Egypt… you can’t talk about Denmark without talking about The Danish Woman”: Immigrant Perceptions of European Gender and Sexual Cultures.- Chapter 4. “…[I]t does not have to be because they want to get married and have children”: Teaching Danish Sexuality and Gender Norms to Foreign Workers, 1972.- PART III: SOLIDARITY.- Chapter 5. "They’re fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that’s the only difference”: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women’s Movement, The Netherlands, 1974-1980.- Chapter 6. “All of that talk about feminism was very hard to understand”: Immigrant Women and European Feminism, 1974-1985.- PART IV: PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 7. “Help me, an Indonesian boy living in Holland… flee my parents”: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in European Gay/Lesbian Contact Ads, 1960s-1980s.- Chapter 8. “I was one of the first colored gays”: Experiences of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in European Gay/Lesbian Scenes, 1960s-1980s.- Chapter 9. Epilogue: “It was a cultural evolution”: Rethinking Immigrant Sexual Politics since the 1980s.- Bibliography.- Index
Andrew DJ Shield is Fellow and Lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark, where he focuses on the intersections of immigration, race, gender, sexuality, and media in Europe. He lives and bikes in Copenhagen.
‘Shield’s timely and hugely important work takes fresh perspectives on immigration to
Northwest Europe from Turkey, Morocco and Pakistan in particular. Rather than seeing
a homogenised threat or groups of passive victims, he shows how immigrants have
responded to changing cultures of gender and sexuality in multiple ways. The book does
something genuinely new and comes as a nuanced and carefully argued counter to the
poisonous rhetoric of right-wing nationalists in Europe and beyond.’
- Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
‘This is a remarkable book. With a multitude of sources, Andrew DJ Shield welds together
the history of late twentieth-century immigration to Denmark and the Netherlands and
presents it from the immigrants’ viewpoint. An astute scholarly work, which effectively
refutes some of the most common xenophobic and populist claims of our time, the book
has relevance for how we understand cross-cultural experiences everywhere.’
- Jens Rydström, Lund University, Sweden
‘We tend to forget how solidarity and social cohesion were constructed in past decades. This is a must-read for journalists, policy makers and academics.’
- Marlou Schrover, Leiden University, The Netherlands