Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life (eBook)
XVII, 285 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-10-4005-4 (ISBN)
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictions between family ties, filial piety and lesbianism.
Based on individual and couple interviews with self-identified lesbian couples in stable relationships, the book offers vivid narratives of different ways in which Taiwanese lesbians have been able to make sense of their families without recognition by legislation or their families of origin.
Specific issues in Taiwan raised in the book challenge the taken-for-granted understandings of same-sex relationships and review the dramatic transformations that have profoundly changed womens' position. It also offers a sensitive analysis of GLBT issues and heteronormativity, arguing that Chinese familialism can cohabite with lesbianism in the context of contemporary Taiwan.
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictions between family ties, filial piety and lesbianism.Based on individual and couple interviews with self-identified lesbian couples in stable relationships, the book offers vivid narratives of different ways in which Taiwanese lesbians have been able to make sense of their families without recognition by legislation or their families of origin.Specific issues in Taiwan raised in the book challenge the taken-for-granted understandings of same-sex relationships and review the dramatic transformations that have profoundly changed womens' position. It also offers a sensitive analysis of GLBTissues and heteronormativity, arguing that Chinese familialism can cohabite with lesbianism in the context of contemporary Taiwan.
Iris Erh-Ya Pai holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of York, UK, She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Holistic education, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan.
Women in Taiwanese Families— A Personal History.- Western Theories on Same-sex Intimacies.- Methodology.- Individual Sexual Stories.- Lesbian Daughters in Their Families.- Relationships over Time.- Egalitarian Lesbian Relationships?.- Conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia | Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia |
| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 285 p. 2 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Singapore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Female masculinities in Asia. • Heteronormativity in Asian societies • Lesbian community and family • Lesbian family life in Taiwan • Patriarchalism and the Asian Family • Sexual identities in Contemporary Asia • Taiwanese family structure and LGBT issues |
| ISBN-10 | 981-10-4005-2 / 9811040052 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-981-10-4005-4 / 9789811040054 |
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