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Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon

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Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon

[Thesis]

Dima E. Kaedbey

Latorre, Guisela

The Ohio State University

2014

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Committee members: Delgadillo, Theresa; Keating, Christine; Naber, Nadine

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-50137-7

Ph.D.

Womens Studies

The Ohio State University

2014

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.

Womens studies; GLBT Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Social sciences;Arab women;Indigenous thought;Lebanon;Queer feminism

Chiatti, Beth Desaretz

Latorre, Guisela

Womens Studies

The Ohio State University

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[Thesis]

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