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A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel

A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel


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Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism. Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award 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.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Israel, Zionism, and Emigration Anxiety 2. Points of Departure: The Standard Emigration Story and Queer Israeli Emigrants 3. The Israeli Collective and Emigration: Left-Wing Queers and Unbelonging 4. The New Hebrew Diaspora: Queer Israeli Emigrants in Cyber Space 5. Queer Interruptions: The Temporal Regime of Israel and Queer Israeli Emigrants 6. The Queer Act of Emigration: Avoidance and Unheroic Political Activism 7. A Queer Way Out: Israeli Emigration and Unheroic Resistance to Zionism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Hila Amit received her PhD in gender studies from SOAS University of London.

Review :
"By conceptualizing queer Israeli citizens' vulnerability not as an ontological condition but as the precondition for political mobilization and resistance, A Queer Way Out contributes powerfully to the study of queer migrant vulnerability as a critique of homonationalist forms of pinkwashing, as well as to emergent discussions within feminist and queer theory about vulnerability as a tool of political critique." — GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies "A Queer Way Out is more than an ethnographic examination of a small yet significant migratory context, not in quantitative terms but in qualitative ones. The book is written in an accessible language and is thus likely to resonate with a wide audience, including novice readers … By stretching the scope of queerness beyond sexuality paradigms, [Amit's] work offers an innovative queer analysis at each of the micro, meso, and macro levels." — Feminist Encounters


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438470108
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 252
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 143847010X
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 426 gr


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