On 7/28/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>BTW, to understand why Iran, as well as Arab society, is more
>erotically interesting than the West, you can live the age of Walt
>Whitman in your imagination, the age before the emergence of a new
>episteme, i.e. "sexual identities" under the hegemony of
>"heterosexuality," the age when friendships between men, as well as
>between women, weren't threatened with men's failures to become
>"heterosexuals." . . . I'm sure that's what Foucault enjoyed about
>Iran.
>
>--
>Yoshie
This is Orientalist nonsense.
Well, you don't know anything about being queer or sexual culture in
Iran or Oriental ism.
You have to do your homework, first of all.
Take a look at this article by Joseph Massad when you get a chance:
Joseph Andoni Massad, "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and
the Arab World," Public Culture, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2002, pp.
361-385
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/v014/14.2massad.html>
--
Yoshie
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