Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging
Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives
Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities Series

This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging. The book is organized around three interlinked thematic areas, focusing on sexual citizenship, nationalism and international borders (Part 1); sexuality and "race" (Part 2); and sexuality and religion (Part 3). In revisiting notions of sexual citizenship and belonging, contributors engage with topical debates about "sexual nationalism," or the construction of western/European nations as exceptional in terms of attitudes to sexual and gender equality vis-à-vis an uncivilized, racialized "Other."

The collection explores macro-level perspectives by attending to the geopolitical and socio-legal structures within which competing claims to citizenship and belonging are played out; at the same time, micro-level perspectives are utilized to explore the interplay between sexuality and "race," nation, ethnicity and religious identities. Geographically, the collection has a prevalently European focus, yet contributions explore a range of trans-national spatial dimensions that exceed the boundaries of "Europe" and of European nation-states.

Introduction Francesca Stella, Yvette Taylor, Tracey Reynolds and Antoine Rogers Part 1: Sexual Nationalisms and the Boundaries of Sexual Citizenship 1. Sexual Citizenship, Nationalism and Biopolitics in Putin’s Russia Francesca Stella and Nadya Nartova 2. Sexuality, Citizenship and Migration: The Irish Queer Diaspora in London Roísín Ryan-Flood 3. Narrativizing One’s Sexuality/Gender: Neoliberal Humanitarianism and the Right of Asylum Calogero Giametta 4. The New Transnational Politics of LGBT Human Rights in the Commonwealth: What Can UK NGOs Learn from the Global South? Matthew Waites Part 2: Racialised Subjects and Feminist/Queer Solidarities 5. Black Mammy and Company: Exploring Constructions of Black Womanhood in Britain Tracey Reynolds 6. Activism Beyond Identities: Building Shared Alliances Against Homophobia and Racism in Palermo Maria Livia Alga 7. What Does a “Genuine Lesbian” Look Like?: Intersections of Sexuality and “Race” in Manchester’s Gay Village and in the UK Asylum System Nina Held 8. “Time After Time”: Gay Conditionality, Colonial Temporality, and Āzādī Tara Atluri Part 3: Sexuality, Religion and Belonging 9. Creating Citizens, Constructing Religion, Configuring Gender: Intersectional Sites, Scripts and Sticking Points Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon 10. Changing Churches: Sexuality, Difference, Power Savitri Hensman 11. Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms Sarah-Jane Page 12. Angels and the Dragon King’s Daughter: Gender and Sexuality in Western Buddhist New Religious Movements Sally R. Munt and Sharon E. Smith

Francesca Stella is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde.

Tracey Reynolds is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich.

Antoine Rogers is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology at London South Bank University.