Borders of desire : gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe / edited by Elissa Helms and Tuija Pulkkinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helms, Elissa, editor.

Pulkkinen, Tuija, editor.

Series:

Rethinking borders (Manchester, England)

Rethinking borders

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Boundaries.

Boundaries--Anthropological aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Sex--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Sex.

Sex--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 181 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Elissa Helms is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna.

Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Summary:

A collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce desire, particularly gendered and sexualized desire.

Contents:

Introduction: Gender, sexuality, and desire at the eastern borders of Europe / Elissa Helms and Tuija Pulkkinen

1. Crossing the lines on Lesvos: Navigating overlapping borders in the Aegean / Sarah Green

2. Transgressing realities: Desire and the border in the southern Balkans / Rozita Dimova

3. How do borders produce ethno-sexualisation and lived senses of sexuality? Insights from lives of Latvian women in Guernsey / Aija Lulle

4. Moving desire: multiple lives and desires in border-crossing prostitution / May-Len Skilbrei

5. Sex, love, and a better future: gendered desire in the narratives of women from post-socialist countries in Italy and Finland / Anastasia Diatlova and Lena Näre

6. The hero and the ‘whore’: Croatia’s sexualized and gendered (self-)ascriptions and its desire for European belonging / Michaela Schäuble

7. Desires for past and future in border crossings on the Finnish-Russian border / Olga Davidova-Minguet and Pirjo Pöllänen

8. Desire to resist: EU border-making and anti-LGBT mobilization in Serbia / Katja Kahlina and Dušica Ristivojevic.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526165206

1526165201

9781526179661

1526179660

9781526165220

1526165228

OCLC:

1417400868