Description
Book Synopsis 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.
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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