American Crossroads. Possible Histories : Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling /

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karem Albrecht, Charlotte (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]
Series:American Crossroads ; 70
Subjects:
Peddlers > Social networks > United States.
Sexual orientation > United States.
Syrian Americans > Economic conditions.
Syrian Americans > Social conditions.
Colporteurs > Réseaux sociaux > États-Unis.
Orientation sexuelle > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine syrienne > Conditions économiques.
Américains d'origine syrienne > Conditions sociales.
HISTORY / LGBTQ+.
Sexual orientation
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Terms and Translations
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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