Deviants, Queers or Scissoring Sisters of Men? : Translating and Locating Queer and Trans Feminisms in the Arab World
(2021)- Abstract
- This chapter provides an overview of LGBTQ+ organizations and movements in the Arabic-speaking world, as well as central themes and debates, including different strategies taken in translating terminology and developing a vocabulary to speak about nonnormative sex, gender, and identification in Arabic. Treating translation as performance, emphasizing the political impact of terminology, and viewing queer and trans activism through a performative lens, the chapter brings clarity to the controversy about increased queer visibility and the proliferation of LGBTQ+ rights discourse in the Arabic-speaking world.
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- author
- Abdelmoez, Joel W. LU
- publishing date
- 2021-10
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Arabic-speaking world, Language, LGBTQ-movement, Terminology, translation as performance, translation as activism
- host publication
- Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance
- editor
- D'Urso, Sandra ; Rosenberg, Tiina and Winget, Anna Renée
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85160475043
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- f17739c4-90a3-4e43-99f2-4a0af80517d7
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-02 15:36:42
- date last changed
- 2023-06-16 04:00:06
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