Gender Sexuality and Diaspora

<p>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?</p><p>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 <em>Gender Sexuality and Diaspora</em> demonstrates how migratory experiences impact sexuality and conversely how sexuality is constitutive of migratory processes.</p><p>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.</p>