Gay Life Stories Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran /

• Main Author: Kjaran, Jón Ingvar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Gender identity.; Cultural studies.; Queer theory.; Ethnography.; Men.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Gender and Sexuality.; Cultural Studies.; Queer Theory.; Men's Studies.; Middle Eastern Culture.

"Jón Ingvar Kjaran examines the complicated embodied experiences of gay-identifying men in Iran, focusing on their agency and the ways in which they carve out meaning in their lives. This is no easy task, since these men must resist both the official homophobic discourses of the state and the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Reading Foucault in Tehran
• 3. The Historical Contingencies and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in Iran
• 4. The Construction of the Iranian Gay Subject Outside of Iran
• 5. Ethical Relationality and Accounts of Gay Iranian Men
• 6. Iranian Gay/Queer Activists and Activism
• 7. The "Sick Gay": Being HIV-positive in Iran
• 8. Gay/Queer Spaces in Tehran: Intimacy, Sociality, and Resistance
• 9. Conclusion: Gay Livability in a Queer Dystopia.