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Queer Beirut /
"Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story of gay and lesbian identity in the Middle East is only just beginning to be told. Queer Beirut is the first ethnographic study of queer lives in the A...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys
- Introduction
- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon
- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence
- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu
- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism
- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia
- 7. The Gay Gaze and the Politics of Memory :A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ
- 8. "Seeing Oneself" and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz
- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies
- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between Cit yand Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday LifeConclusion. Struggling for Difference
- Notes
- Glossary of Transliterated Arabic Terms
- Bibliography
- Index