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Queer Jews, Queer Muslims

Race, Religion, and Representation

Robert Phillips author Katrina Daly Thompson author Shanon Shah author Adi Saleem Bharat author Edwige Crucifix author Amr Kamal author Benjamin Dubrulle author Adi Saleem Bharat editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Published:31st Mar '24

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Through a curated selection of scholarship, Adi Saleem demonstrates that representations of Muslim and Jewish sexuality are often racialized and gendered in parallel ways as non-Western, deviant, and dangerous within Euro-American modernity. Contributors reckon with the intertwined past and present of Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, coloniality, misogyny, and homophobia through distinct and complementary perspectives. In the first of three sections, scholars investigate the construction and performance of multiple identities and the crossing of boundaries. Studies of scriptural texts and media discourse as they shape perceptions of Jewish and Muslim gender and sexual minorities follow, highlighting how these representations impact the lived experiences of queer Jews and Muslims. The final section examines the efforts of contemporary queer Jews and Muslims to organize and form communities to forge solidarity in the face of multiple forms of oppression and marginalization. In conversation with Islamic studies, Jewish studies, and queer theory, this collection explores the interrelated experiences and representations of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Europe while triangulating the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third variable: queerness.

ISBN: 9780814350874

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 272g

240 pages