Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora

Bibliographic Data

ID23192229
AuthorsFataneh Farahani (0000-0001-5427-4152, Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages172
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGender, Sexuality, and Diaspora (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9780203795613
OpenAlexW2916077864
ISBN9780203795613
Open LibraryOL53998559M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives? Seeking to expand the focus on changing gender roles and construction of diasporic femininities and sexualities in migration studies, Farahani presents an original analysis of first generation Iranian immigrant women in Sweden. Certainly, highlighting the hybrid experiences of Swedish Iranians, Farahani explores the tensions that develop between the process of (self)disciplining women’s bodies and the coping tactics that women employ. Subsequently, Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora demonstrates how migratory experiences impact sexuality and, conversely, how sexuality is constitutive of migratory processes. A timely book rich with empirical and theoretical insights on the subject of gender, diaspora and sexuality, it will appeal to scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender studies, anthropology, sociology, sexuality studies, diaspora, postcolonial and Middle Eastern studies.

coping strategies · Diaspora · Focus (optics) · gender roles · Human sexuality · Intersectionality · Migration · Sexuality · Sociology · women's agency · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Health, and Social Inequality · Islamic Studies and History · Emigration & Immigration · emigration and immigration · Iranians · Muslim women · Sex · Social Science