Global Homophobia: States, Movements, and the Politics of Oppression - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252037723 ISBN 13: 9780252037726

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2013

Synopsis

While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Contributors theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts. The essays include a broad range of geographic cases, including France, Ecuador, Iran, Lebanon, Poland, Singapore, and the United States.

About this title

Book Description:

Causes and implications of the transnational diffusion of homophobia

About the Author:

Meredith L. Weiss is an associate professor of political science at the University of Albany and the author of Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow. Michael J. Bosia is an associate professor of political science at St. Michael's College in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0252037723
• ISBN 13: 9780252037726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Weiss Meredith L., Bosia Michael J.