Gay Life Stories
Jón Ingvar Kjaran
Springer International Publishing 
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Sonstiges
Beschreibung
Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical, online and empirical sources in order to present critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation and the constitution of same-sex desire under the specific conditions of Iranian modernity. As it engages with accounts of the persecuted Iranian gay male subject as a victim of the barbarism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the book addresses interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts and attends to issues of human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities. The book thus combines empirical data with a critical consideration of the politics of same-sex desire for Iranian gay men.
Kundenbewertungen
Iranian modernity, sexuality governance, Tehran, Transnational sexuality governance, Post-revolution Iran, gender and sexuality, veiling/unveiling, sexual justice, Iranian gay men, same-sex desire, Islam and homosexuality, discrimination, LGBTQ, Middle East, Islamic Republic of Iran, Sexuality governance, criminalization of homosexuality, gay identity, queer identities, transexuality