ISBN:
9781800736832
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 195 Seiten
Series Statement:
Fertility, reproduction and sexuality volume 51
Series Statement:
Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
DDC:
306.709492
Keywords:
Iranians Sexual behavior
;
Iranians Cultural assimilation
;
Sex
;
Group identity
;
Niederlande
;
Iranier
;
Einwanderer
;
Geschlechtsidentität
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Gruppenidentität
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
