A Queer Way Out

A Queer Way Out
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781438470115
ISBN-13 : 1438470118
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Book Synopsis A Queer Way Out by : Hila Amit

Download or read book A Queer Way Out written by Hila Amit and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism. The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila Amit explores the as-yet-untold story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin, London, and New York, she examines motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective. Amit shows that sexual orientation and left-wing political affiliation play significant roles in decisions to leave. Queer Israeli emigrants question national and heterosexual norms such as army service, monogamy, and reproduction. Amit argues that emigration itself is not only a political act, but one that pioneers a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionist ideology. This fascinating study enriches our understandings of migration, political activism, and queer forms of living in Israel and beyond.


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