Produktinformation
Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila Amit explores the as-yet-untold story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin, London, and New York, she examines motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective. Amit shows that sexual orientation and left-wing political affiliation play significant roles in decisions to leave. Queer Israeli emigrants question national and heterosexual norms such as army service, monogamy, and reproduction. Amit argues that emigration itself is not only a political act, but one that pioneers a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionist ideology. This fascinating study enriches our understandings of migration, political activism, and queer forms of living in Israel and beyond.Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-10143847010x
ISBN-139781438470108
eBay Product ID (ePID)23044648416
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
VerlagSuny Press
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Anzahl der Seiten252 Seiten
PublikationsnameQueer Way Out, A
SpracheEnglisch
ProduktartLehrbuch
AutorHila Amit
FormatTaschenbuch
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
HörbuchNo
InhaltsbeschreibungPaperback
Item Height1cm
Item Length22cm
Item Weight415g
Item Width15cm