Homophobias : Lust and loathing across time and space

Kulick D., Manalansan M., Sullivan-Blum C., D. Murray

What is it about 'the homosexual' that incites vitriolic rhetoric and/or violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? Where are the ambivalences in homophobic discourses that can be exploited to undermine its hegemonic privilege? This volume addresses these questions through critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are produced. It provides innovative analytical insights that expose the complex and intersecting cultural, political, and economic forces which are contributing to the development of new forms of homophobia. It is a 'call to action' for anthropologists and other social scientists to examine more carefully the processes, politics, histories and contexts of places and people who profess hatred for queerness.