Queer Beirut
Merabet, Sofian, 1972-
Queer Beirut [electronic resource] / by Sofian Merabet. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys -- Map of Lebanon -- Introduction -- Map of Beirut -- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon -- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence -- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu -- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism -- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut -- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia -- 7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoq q al-Bl -- 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The amm m and the Gay Icon Fairuz -- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies -- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life -- Conclusion. Struggling for Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780292763166 0292763166
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Homosexuality--Lebanon--Beirut.
Gender identity--Lebanon--Beirut.
Gay men--Lebanon--Beirut.
Electronic books.
HQ76.2.L42 / B456 2014
306.76/620956925
Queer Beirut [electronic resource] / by Sofian Merabet. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys -- Map of Lebanon -- Introduction -- Map of Beirut -- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon -- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence -- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu -- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism -- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut -- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia -- 7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoq q al-Bl -- 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The amm m and the Gay Icon Fairuz -- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies -- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life -- Conclusion. Struggling for Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780292763166 0292763166
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Homosexuality--Lebanon--Beirut.
Gender identity--Lebanon--Beirut.
Gay men--Lebanon--Beirut.
Electronic books.
HQ76.2.L42 / B456 2014
306.76/620956925