The struggle for LGBTQI+ rights at the international level / by Xabier Irujo -- The legal configuration of sexual orientation and gender identity in the legislation of the autonomous community of the Basque Country / by Andrea Bertomeu Navarro -- Queer discourse and practices in the Basque feminist movement / by Maria Ruiz Torrado -- Fast, slow, and still waters: an overview of LGBTQI+ politics in the southern Basque Country / by Jokin Azpiazu Carballo -- Intersexualities: understanding bodies beyond binary categories from a biographical perspectives / by María Gómez -- Lesbianism and the political subject of the feminist movement in the Basque Country, 1977-1994 / by Maialen Aranguren -- Tensions between body and soul: homosexuality(s) in the Basque Country during the first Francoism / by Abel Díaz -- LGBTQI+ lives in Basque contemporary novels / by Ibon Egaña Etxeberria.
Summary:
"Homosexuality has historically been considered an aberration by most religions and a nefandum activity typified as a crime of sodomy in most countries of the world. Homosexuality was persecuted and punished in various ways and continues to be so in too many places around the world. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union establishes in article 21 that all discrimination shall be prohibited, included that based on sexual orientation, but the declaration does not mention the right to freely hold the person's own gender identity. We are certainly still far from living in a world in which the basic rights of humanity are fully respected. This book, fruit of the collaboration of the Center for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada and the Master in Feminist and Gender Studies of the University of the Basque Country, constitutes the first monograph written in English on this subject in relation to the Basque case. It tries to give response to the existing void around the issues of historical, legal and political, but also social and cultural reality, problems and challenges of the LGBTQI+ collective in the Basque Country"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.