Borders of desire
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Borders of desire

Gender and sexuality at the Eastern borders of Europe

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Borders of desire

Gender and sexuality at the Eastern borders of Europe

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Borders of d esire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire. Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with sites along the eastern borders of Europe, particularly in the Baltics and the Balkans, the studies in this volume illuminate how gendered and sexualized desires are generated by the existence of borders and how they are imagined. As the chapters show, borders can create new desires expressed as aspirations, resentments, and actions including physical movements across borders for pleasure or work, or collective enactments of political ideals or resistance. The collection also shows how the persistent east/west symbolic border continues to act as a source of these desires in European political and social life.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781526165206
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Gender, sexuality and desire at the eastern borders of Europe
  11. 1 Crossing the lines on Lesvos: Navigating overlapping borders in the Aegean
  12. 2 Transgressing realities: Desire and the border in the southern Balkans
  13. 3 How do borders produce ethnosexualisation and lived senses of sexuality? Insights from lives of Latvian women in Guernsey
  14. 4 Moving desire: Multiple lives and desires in border-crossing prostitution
  15. 5 Sex, love and a better future: Gendered desire in the narratives of women from post-socialist countries in Italy and Finland
  16. 6 The hero and the ‘whore’: Croatia’s sexualised and gendered (self-)ascriptions and its desire for European belonging
  17. 7 Desires for past and future in border-crossings on the Finnish–Russian border
  18. 8 Desire to resist: EU border-making and anti-LGBT mobilisation in Serbia
  19. Index