From ‘saving women’ to ‘saving gays’: Rescue narratives and their dis/continuities
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- 7 May 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Women's Studies
- Vol. 19 (2), 237-252
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506811435032
Abstract
This article traces not only some of the borrowings but also the differences between feminist and gay politics in the context of the post-1989 ‘multicultural debate’ and the hegemony of civilizational politics. This investigation is empirically grounded in one national context, that is, the Dutch case, which is exemplary when it comes to bringing politics of gender and sexuality to bear on national and cultural identity politics. The article recapitulates some insights on how feminist politics can get entangled with (neo)colonial and (neo)imperialist politics and traces these connections in a Dutch context. It goes on to review some of the forms homonationalism and homonostalgia take in the Netherlands. And it concludes with a discussion of the resemblances and differences between the ‘saving women’ and ‘saving gays’ narratives that inform civilizational modes of feminist and gay politics.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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