Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

by Rahil Roodsaz

Overview

Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local norms such as sexual liberty and gender equality are seen as successful integration, rejecting them is regarded as a sign of failed citizenship. Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800736849
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/11/2022
Series:	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives , #51
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Rahil Roodsaz is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in sexuality and gender studies and migration studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Sexuality and identity construction among the Iranian Dutch

Chapter 1. Sexually Crafting the Nation: Sexuality as the Vehicle to Collective Self Fashioning, Nineteenth Century—Present
Chapter 2. A Conditional Modern Self: Sexual Negotiations of “Modernity” via an Endogenous Morality
Chapter 3. Passing on the Torch: Authenticating the Self via Religious and Traditional Notions of Sexuality
Chapter 4. Beyond Sexual Boundaries: Transgressive Selves and Sexualities

Conclusion: Sexuality as a Socio-Cultural Argument among the Iranian Dutch

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