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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
Contributor(s): Atshan, Sa'ed (Author)
ISBN: 1503612392     ISBN-13: 9781503612396
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE:   $26.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine
Dewey: 306.766
LCCN: 2019037604
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an empire of critique from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia.

With this book, Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia.