This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. In Search of My Mother’s Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity 2. Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity 3. Problematic Modernization: the Extent and Formation of Muslim Antipathy to Homosexuality 4. Traditions and Transformations of Muslim Homoeroticism 5. Queer Muslims in the Context of Contemporary Globalized LGBTIQ Identity 6. The Politics of Identity and the Ends of Liberation 7. Beginnings
Circa l’autore
Momin Rahman is Associate Professor in Sociology at Trent University, Canada. His publications include Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches (with Stevi Jackson) and Sexuality and Democracy.
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