Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The conceits of modernity and modernization; Muslim homo-eroticism in historical and contemporary context; Political possibilities; 1 In Search of My Mother's Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity; Introduction; History, narratives and narrators; Migration; Identities; Gender; My mother's garden; Not quite Muslim, not quite gay, towards a queer intersectionality; 2 Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity; Introduc…
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The conceits of modernity and modernization; Muslim homo-eroticism in historical and contemporary context; Political possibilities; 1 In Search of My Mother's Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity; Introduction; History, narratives and narrators; Migration; Identities; Gender; My mother's garden; Not quite Muslim, not quite gay, towards a queer intersectionality; 2 Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity; Introduction; The drumbeats of Islamic 'otherness'; Democracy as Western exceptionalism.
Equality and secularism versus multiculturalism in the context of genderSexual diversity as the marker of Islamic otherness?; The conceits of the West and the resistance of the East; 3 Problematic Modernization: The Extent and Formation of Muslim Antipathy to Homosexuality; Introduction; Muslim regulation of homosexuality at the national and international level; The attitudes of Muslim majority and minority populations; Explaining Muslim antipathy through the modernization thesis; The complexities of modernization and reactions to homosexuality.
Understanding Muslim homophobia in the contexts of modernity and Islamophobia4 Traditions and Transformations of Muslim Homo-eroticism; Introduction; Homo-eroticism in traditional Muslim cultures; The transformation of Muslim homo-eroticism through the 'Gay International'; Modernity misunderstood? Colonialism, post-colonial cultures and the regulation of the sexual; Connected histories: the wider sociological basis of homosexualization during modernity; Homosexualization beyond westernization and the politics of Muslim identity.
5 Queer Muslims in the Context of Contemporary Globalized LGBTIQ IdentityIntroduction; The world 'they' have won; Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in Muslim majority cultures; Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in the West; From connected histories to queer Muslims as modern intersectional subjects; Towards an intersectional modernity?; 6 The Politics of Identity and the Ends of Liberation; Introduction; The triangulation of Western exceptionalism: homocolonialism, Muslim homophobia and monoculturalism.
The political presumptions of homocolonialism: 'coming out' and the essential context of political identityBeyond homocolonialism: the ends of liberation and equality as resource; Arriving at the terrain of dialogue and recognizing queer as privilege; 7 Beginnings; Introduction; The homocolonialist 'test' for internationalized Western queer politics and consciousness; Homocolonialism in multiculturalism; Embracing Western exceptionalism through homocolonialism: challenges for Muslim consciousness and politics; The past and future imperfect, tense; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2014.
- Edition:Online-ausg
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (244 Seiten)).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781137002969, 1137002964, 9781137002952, 1137002956
- DOI:10.1057/9781137002969
- oclc:ocn882951640
- LC Classification:BP188.14.H65
- Dewey Decimal:306.766088297
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