A Queer Way Out
eBook - ePub

A Queer Way Out

The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Queer Way Out

The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Israel, Zionism, and Emigration Anxiety
  9. 2. Points of Departure: The Standard Emigration Story and Queer Israeli Emigrants
  10. 3. The Israeli Collective and Emigration: Left-Wing Queers and Unbelonging
  11. 4. The New Hebrew Diaspora: Queer Israeli Emigrants in Cyber Space
  12. 5. Queer Interruptions: The Temporal Regime of Israel and Queer Israeli Emigrants
  13. 6. The Queer Act of Emigration: Avoidance and Unheroic Political Activism
  14. 7. A Queer Way Out: Israeli Emigration and Unheroic Resistance to Zionism
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover