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Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution

Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe

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Authors:
  1. Andrew DJ Shield

    1. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  • Historicizes current European debates about the sexual politics of immigrants from Muslim-majority regions
  • Explores the centrality of sexual politics to European debates about immigration and integration
  • Challenges dominant theories linking immigration to sexual conservatism and misogynistic behaviour

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: “The disaster of Islamization…where gays are not safe to walk the streets, women are seen as inferior”: Pro-Gay, Anti-Immigrant Politics and the Right, 2000–2017

    • Andrew D J Shield
    Pages 1-18

  3. “There were no colored people in the classrooms”: The Disavowal of Heterogeneity

    • Andrew D J Shield
    Pages 19-49

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 259-287
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About this book

This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation activism. Using multilingual newspapers, foreign worker organizations’ archives, and interviews, this book shows that immigrants in the Netherlands and Denmark held a variety of viewpoints about European gender and sexual cultures. Some immigrants felt solidarity with, and even participated in, European social movements that changed norms and laws in favor of women’s equality, gay and lesbian rights, and sexual liberation. These histories challenge today’s politicians and journalists who strategically link immigration to sexual conservatism, misogyny, and homophobia.

Reviews

“Shield’s timely and hugely important work takes fresh perspectives on immigration to Northwest Europe from Turkey, Morocco and Pakistan in particular. Rather than seeing a homogenised threat or groups of passive victims, he shows how immigrants have responded to changing cultures of gender and sexuality in multiple ways. The book does something genuinely new and comes as a nuanced and carefully argued counter to the poisonous rhetoric of right-wing nationalists in Europe and beyond.” (Matt Cook, University of London, UK)

“This is a remarkable book. With a multitude of sources, Shield welds together the history of late twentieth-century immigration to Denmark and the Netherlands and presents it from the immigrants’ viewpoint. An astute scholarly work, which effectively refutes some of the most common xenophobic and populist claims of our time, the book has relevance for how we understand cross-cultural experiences everywhere.” (Jens Rydström, Lund University, Sweden)

“This book explores how western European societies accommodated diversity according to gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality. It convincingly shows how collective amnesia dominates current debates. We tend to forget how solidarity and social cohesion were constructed in past decades. This is a must-read for journalists, policy makers and academics.” (Marlou Schrover, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Andrew DJ Shield

About the author

Andrew DJ Shield is Fellow and Lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark, where he focuses on the intersections of immigration, race, gender, sexuality, and media in Europe. He lives and bikes in Copenhagen.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution

  • Book Subtitle: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe

  • Authors: Andrew DJ Shield

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49613-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49612-2Published: 14 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84200-4Published: 10 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49613-9Published: 29 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, Gender and Sexuality, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History

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