Overview
- Presents ethnographic narrative in concert with theories of space, sexuality, sexuality governance, and victimhood
- Provides critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation in Iranian modernity
- Relevant for researchers in anthropology, sociology, gender studies, sexuality studies, Middle East studies, and international relations
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Iranian gay men
- same-sex desire
- sexuality governance
- criminalization of homosexuality
- transexuality
- sexual justice
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- queer identities
- discrimination
- Islam and homosexuality
- Post-revolution Iran
- gay identity
- Tehran
- veiling/unveiling
- Iranian modernity
- Middle East
- LGBTQ
- Sexuality governance
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Transnational sexuality governance
- gender and sexuality
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jón Ingvar Kjaran is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Iceland and a senior researcher at the UNU GEST (United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gay Life Stories
Book Subtitle: Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Authors: Jón Ingvar Kjaran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12831-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12830-2Published: 10 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12833-3Published: 08 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12831-9Published: 27 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender and Sexuality, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, Ethnography, Men's Studies, Middle Eastern Culture