Possible histories : Arab Americans and the queer ecology of peddling /

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"Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karem Albrecht, Charlotte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Colección:American crossroads ; 70.
Temas:
Syrian Americans > Social conditions.
Syrian Americans > Economic conditions.
Peddlers > Social networks > United States.
Sexual minorities > Social networks > United States.
Syrian Americans > Social networks.
Arab Americans > Social networks.
Social networks > United States.
Sexual orientation > United States.
Sexual minority culture > United States.
HISTORY / LGBTQ+.
Social networks
Sexual minority culture
Sexual orientation.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Traveler, peddler, stranger, Syrian: queer provocations and sexual threats
  • 2. "A woman without limits": Syrian women in the peddling economy
  • 3. Wandering in diaspora: the Syrian American elite and sexual normativity
  • 4. The possibilities of peddling: imagining homosocial and homoerotic pleasure in Arab America
  • Conclusion: Alixa Naff and the parenthetical Syrian American lesbian.

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