A Queer Way Out - Couverture souple

Amit, Hila

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 143847010X ISBN 13 : 9781438470108

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hila Amit received her PhD in gender studies from SOAS University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143847010X
• ISBN 13: 9781438470108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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