A queer way out : the politics of queer emigration from Israel /

"Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism. The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila A...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amit, Hila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Sexual minorities > Israel.
Gay immigrants > Israel.
Zionism.
Minorités sexuelles > Israël.
Immigrants homosexuels > Israël.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Gay immigrants
Sexual minorities
Zionism
Israel > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Israel
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Israel, Zionism and the emigration anxiety
  • Points of departure : the standard emigration story and queer Israeli emigrants
  • The Israeli collective and emigration : left-wing queers and unbelonging
  • The new Hebrew diaspora : queer Israeli emigrants in cyber space
  • [queer] interruptions : the temporal regime of Israel and queer Israeli emigrants
  • The queer act of emigration : avoidance and non-heroic political activism
  • A queer way out : Israeli emigration and unheroic resistance to Zionism.

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