Description: While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Contributors theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts.
Review Quotes: "This is a timely and significant collection that will further our understanding of both the national political reasons for homophobia and how these relate to an emerging transnational homophobic movement. The conceptualization of political homophobia as a state and global strategy represents a real advance in contemporary debates about the globalization of LGBT politics."--Momin Rahman, coauthor of Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches