Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity [electronic resource] /
Rahman, Momin,author.
This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The conceits of modernity and modernization; Muslim homo-eroticism in historical and contemporary context; Political possibilities; 1 In Search of My Mother's Garden: Reflections on Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Muslim Identity; Introduction; History, narratives and narrators; Migration; Identities; Gender; My mother's garden; Not quite Muslim, not quite gay, towards a queer intersectionality; 2 Islam versus Homosexuality as Modernity; Introduction; The drumbeats of Islamic 'otherness'; Democracy as Western exceptionalism
Equality and secularism versus multiculturalism in the context of genderSexual diversity as the marker of Islamic otherness?; The conceits of the West and the resistance of the East; 3 Problematic Modernization: The Extent and Formation of Muslim Antipathy to Homosexuality; Introduction; Muslim regulation of homosexuality at the national and international level; The attitudes of Muslim majority and minority populations; Explaining Muslim antipathy through the modernization thesis; The complexities of modernization and reactions to homosexuality
Understanding Muslim homophobia in the contexts of modernity and Islamophobia4 Traditions and Transformations of Muslim Homo-eroticism; Introduction; Homo-eroticism in traditional Muslim cultures; The transformation of Muslim homo-eroticism through the 'Gay International'; Modernity misunderstood? Colonialism, post-colonial cultures and the regulation of the sexual; Connected histories: the wider sociological basis of homosexualization during modernity; Homosexualization beyond westernization and the politics of Muslim identity
5 Queer Muslims in the Context of Contemporary Globalized LGBTIQ IdentityIntroduction; The world 'they' have won; Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in Muslim majority cultures; Connected contemporary histories: queer Muslims in the West; From connected histories to queer Muslims as modern intersectional subjects; Towards an intersectional modernity?; 6 The Politics of Identity and the Ends of Liberation; Introduction; The triangulation of Western exceptionalism: homocolonialism, Muslim homophobia and monoculturalism
The political presumptions of homocolonialism: 'coming out' and the essential context of political identityBeyond homocolonialism: the ends of liberation and equality as resource; Arriving at the terrain of dialogue and recognizing queer as privilege; 7 Beginnings; Introduction; The homocolonialist 'test' for internationalized Western queer politics and consciousness; Homocolonialism in multiculturalism; Embracing Western exceptionalism through homocolonialism: challenges for Muslim consciousness and politics; The past and future imperfect, tense; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic.
Ethnicity.
Sociology.
Gender identity-Religious aspect.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social policy.
Sociology, general.
Ethnicity Studies.
Gender Studies.
Religion and Gender.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Social Policy.