Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon

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" Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802904
Doc. No	:	TL48084
Call number	:	‭1650596686;‮ ‬3672682‬
Main Entry	:	Chiatti, Beth Desaretz
Title & Author	:	Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon
	:	\ Dima E. Kaedbey
	:	Latorre, Guisela
College	:	The Ohio State University
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2014
field of study	:	Womens Studies
Page No	:	246
Note	:	Committee members: Delgadillo, Theresa; Keating, Christine; Naber, Nadine
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-50137-7
Abstract	:	This dissertation is an analysis of theoretical innovations emerging from the queer and feminist movements in Lebanon. I argue that the queer feminist thought that is being produced in Lebanon today is rooted in histories of women's participation in local immigrant, labor, and anti-colonial struggles. Whereas these movements are often seen as separate, I put forth a queer feminist anti-racist and transnational methodology that challenges the compartmentalization of social and political movements. I also argue that queer feminism in Lebanon is breaking away from linear concepts of time and is providing a cyclical temporality to show the interrelatedness of historical and current events. Finally, I examine the different ways that self-identified feminists reflect on the tensions and divisions within their communities. The process through which these local tensions are highlighted are critical of power structures within activist spaces, but they also aim at creating transnational connections with women of color in the U.S and with feminists of the Global South.
Subject	:	Womens studies; GLBT Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Arab women;Indigenous thought;Lebanon;Queer feminism
Added Entry	:	Latorre, Guisela
Added Entry	:	The Ohio State University
	:	Womens Studies