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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References
Index

Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Rahil Roodsaz

214 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-683-2 Hb Published (November 2022)

eISBN 978-1-80073-684-9 eBook

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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.

Rahil Roodsaz is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in sexuality and gender studies and migration studies.

Series: Volume 51, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Area: Europe

LC: HQ18.N45 R66 2022

berghahn New York · Oxford

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Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Rahil Roodsaz

Series: Volume 51, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Area: Europe

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Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Rahil Roodsaz

Series: Volume 51, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Area: Europe