Description
Book SynopsisQueer Beirut paves the way for a timely anthropological conversation about gender and queer identities in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies.
Trade ReviewThis monograph . . . is the first of its kind, making it an invaluable contribution to scholarship on queer sexualities, urban space, and social production in Lebanon. * Anthropos *
Queer Beirut masterfully bridges disciplinary borders by engaging with an impressive and diverse body of scholarship, ranging from literary to anthropological to sociological theory. * H-Net Reviews *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys
- Map of Lebanon
- Introduction
- Map of Beirut
- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon
- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence
- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu
- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism
- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut
- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia
- 7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ
- 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz
- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies
- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life
- Conclusion. Struggling for Difference
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
