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Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon

Kaedbey, Dima
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Womens Studies.
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.
Guisela Latorre (Committee Chair)
Cricket (Christine) Keating (Committee Member)
Theresa Delgadillo (Committee Member)
Nadine Naber (Committee Member)
246 p.
Womens Studies
Queer feminism; Lebanon; Arab women; indigenous thought; Sawt al Niswa; Bekhsoos; domestic migrant workers;

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  • Kaedbey, D. (2014). Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kaedbey, Dima. Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kaedbey, Dima. "Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625

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