Homophobias

Lust and Loathing across Time and Space

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ID5852370
AuthorsD Kulick (0000-0001-9101-5539), Brian Riedel, Martin F Manalansan Iv, Martin F Manalansan, Constance R Sullivan-Blum, Steven Angelide (0000-0002-5191-6823), Steven Angelides, Lawrence Cohen, Suzanne Lafont, Tom Boellstorff
EditorsDavid A B Murray
Year2009
Pages238
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHomophobias (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822391395
OpenAlexW21004389
Open LibraryOL29686265M
ISBN9780822391395
LanguageEN
Citations received38

What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? What are the ambivalences in homophobic discourses that can be exploited to undermine its hegemonic privilege? This volume addresses these questions through critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are produced. It provides innovative analytical insights that expose the complex and intersecting cultural, political, and economic forces contributing to the development of new forms of homophobia. And it is a call to action for anthropologists and other social scientists to examine more carefully the politics, histories, and contexts of places and people who profess hatred for queerness. The contributors to this volume open up the scope of inquiry into processes of homophobia, moving the analysis of a particular form of "hate" into new, wider sociocultural and political fields. The ongoing production of homophobic discourses is carefully analyzed in diverse sites including New York City, Australia, the Caribbean, Greece, India, and Indonesia, as well as American Christian churches, in order to uncover the complex operational processes of homophobias and their intimate relationships to nationalism, sexism, racism, class, and colonialism. The contributors also critically inquire into the limitations of the term homophobia and interrogate its utility as a cross-cultural designation. Contributors . Steven Angelides, Tom Boellstorff, Lawrence Cohen, Don Kulick, Suzanne LaFont, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David A. B. Murray, Brian Riedel, Constance R. Sullivan-Blum

Hatred · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Racism · Rhetoric · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Cross-cultural studies · Homophobia · Homophobia in anthropology · LGBTQ anthropology · Ruth Benedict Prize

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