Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality Series

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives?

Seeking to expand the focus on changing gender roles and construction of diasporic femininities and sexualities in migration studies, Farahani presents an original analysis of first generation Iranian immigrant women in Sweden. Certainly, highlighting the hybrid experiences of Swedish Iranians, Farahani explores the tensions that develop between the process of (self)disciplining women?s bodies and the coping tactics that women employ. Subsequently, Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora demonstrates how migratory experiences impact sexuality and, conversely, how sexuality is constitutive of migratory processes.

A timely book rich with empirical and theoretical insights on the subject of gender, diaspora and sexuality, it will appeal to scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender studies, anthropology, sociology, sexuality studies, diaspora, postcolonial and Middle Eastern studies.

1. Turning a Diasporic Tale into a Research Topic

2. Sexing Diaspora

3. Veil: Multiple Meanings, Disciplinary Power and Women’s Negotiations

4. Diasporic Narratives of Virginity

5. Learning about Sex and Sexuality

6. Romantic Love and Arranged Marriages

7. Narratives of Divorce

Conclusion

Fataneh Farahani is an Associate Professor in Ethnology at Stockholm University, Sweden.