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A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hila AmitPublish date:2019-01-02Pages:252
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438470108ISBN-10:143847010XUPC:9781438470108Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Gay Studies, Lesbian StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC4GCG2V6K

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438470108ISBN-10:143847010XUPC:9781438470108Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Gay Studies, Lesbian StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC4GCG2V6K

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


Publisher: State University of New York Press

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