Sexual Self-Fashioning : : Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging / / Rahil Roodsaz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Roodsaz, Rahil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 SOCIOCULTURAL ARGUMENT AMONG THE IRANIAN DUTCH -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX