Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
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2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9761-4 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9761-4 (ISBN)
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including mothers, fathers, and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyses the ways that families navigate their internal differences. Brainer looks across generational cohorts, with informants ranging in age from their twenties to their seventies.
Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.
Brainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.
Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.
Brainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.
AMY BRAINER is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies and sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Contents
Introduction: Bringing Families of Origin into Focus
Meanings of Silence and Disclosure
(Queerly) Carrying on the Family
Gender and Power Across Generations
Strategic Normativity: Sex, Politics, and Parents
Siblings and Family Work
Appendix A: Naming and Language
Appendix B: List of Interviewees
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Families in Focus |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9761-7 / 0813597617 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9761-4 / 9780813597614 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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