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Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 51)
Author: Rahil Roodsaz
Year: November 11, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 580 KB
Language: English
Year: November 11, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 580 KB
Language: English
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.