Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies (Queer Interventions)

Introduction / Lisa Downing and Robert Gillett -- Queer in Belgium : ignorance, goodwill, compromise / Bart Eeckhout -- Queer in Cyprus : national identity and the construction of gender and sexuality / Nayia Kamenou -- Queer in England : the comfort of queer kittens, teletubbies and eurovision / David Nixon and Nick Givens -- Queer in France : AIDS Dissidentification in France / James Agar -- Queer in Germany : materialist concerns in theory and activism / Ute Kalender -- Queer in Hungary : hate speech regulation and the queering of the conduct/speech binary / Erzsébet Barát -- Queer in Ireland / Anne Mulhall -- Queer in Italy : Italian televisibility and the "queerable" audience / Luca Malici -- Queer in the Netherlands : pro-gay and anti-sex : sexual politics at a turning point / Gert Hekma -- Queer in the Nordic region : telling queer (feminist) stories / Ulrika Dahl -- Queer in Poland : under construction / Lukasz Szulc -- Queer in Russia : othering the other of the West / Brian James Baer -- Queer in Spain : identity without limits / Santiago Fouz-Hernández Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept'queer'is adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European national contexts, namely: Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain. Rather than prescribing a universalizing definition, the book engages with a wide spectrum of what is meant by'queer', as each chapter negotiates the contested border between direct queer activist action based on identity categories, and more plural queer strategies that call these categories into question. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies. Introduction / Lisa Downing and Robert Gillett -- Queer in Belgium : ignorance, goodwill, compromise / Bart Eeckhout -- Queer in Cyprus : national identity and the construction of gender and sexuality / Nayia Kamenou -- Queer in England : the comfort of queer kittens, teletubbies and eurovision / David Nixon and Nick Givens -- Queer in France : AIDS Dissidentification in France / James Agar -- Queer in Germany : materialist concerns in theory and activism / Ute Kalender -- Queer in Hungary : hate speech regulation and the queering of the conduct/speech binary / Erzsébet Barát -- Queer in Ireland / Anne Mulhall -- Queer in Italy : Italian televisibility and the "queerable" audience / Luca Malici -- Queer in the Netherlands : pro-gay and anti-sex : sexual politics at a turning point / Gert Hekma -- Queer in the Nordic region : telling queer (feminist) stories / Ulrika Dahl -- Queer in Poland : under construction / Lukasz Szulc -- Queer in Russia : othering the other of the West / Brian James Baer -- Queer in Spain : identity without limits / Santiago Fouz-Hernández Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen relevant experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European countries. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies The authors examine the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts, namely: Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain The chapters in this book explore how sexuality is perceived in many different countries, including Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Spain