What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric
and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate
queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social,
political, and economic terrains? What are the ambivalences in
homophobic discourses that can be exploited to undermine its
hegemonic privilege? This volume addresses these questions through
critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are
produced. It provides innovative analytical insights that expose
the complex and intersecting cultural, political, and economic
forces contributing to the development of new forms of homophobia.
And it is a call to action for anthropologists and other social
scientists to examine more carefully the politics, histories, and
contexts of places and people who profess hatred for queerness.
The contributors to this volume open up the scope of inquiry
into processes of homophobia, moving the analysis of a particular
form of "hate" into new, wider sociocultural and political fields.
The ongoing production of homophobic discourses is carefully
analyzed in diverse sites including New York City, Australia, the
Caribbean, Greece, India, and Indonesia, as well as American
Christian churches, in order to uncover the complex operational
processes of homophobias and their intimate relationships to
nationalism, sexism, racism, class, and colonialism. The
contributors also critically inquire into the limitations of the
term "homophobia" and interrogate its utility as a cross-cultural
designation.
"Contributors." Steven Angelides, Tom Boellstorff, Lawrence
Cohen, Don Kulick, Suzanne LaFont, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David
A. B. Murray, Brian Riedel, Constance R. Sullivan-Blum
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