Queering families : the postmodern partnerships of cisgender women and transgender men / Carla A. Pfeffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfeffer, Carla A., author.

Series:

Sexuality, identity, and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans men--Family relationships.

Trans men.

Trans people--Identity.

Trans people.

Transgender people--Identity.

Interpersonal relations.

Couples.

Man-woman relationships.

Sexual minorities' families.

Female-to-male transsexuals.

Families.

LGBTQ+ families.

Sexual identity.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Ozzie and Harriet, move over. A new couple is moving into the neighborhood. While a growing body of literature on transgender men's experiences has come to the forefront, Queering Families brings the experience of their partners to light. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with fifty cisgender women partners of transgender men, author Carla A. Pfeffer details the experiences of a community often overlooked in today's society. Queering Families expertly details both the struggles and strengths of these postmodern "Harriets" as they work to build and strengthen their identities, partnerships, families, and communities. Pfeffer's interviewees discuss the implications of visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives as they face banters and find paths to legal and social inclusion; carve out new lexicons for both their partners' bodies and their own sexualities, and plan and construct families with (or without) children of their own. With remarkable depth, clarity, and insight, Queering Families explores a rapidly-shifting social landscape that continues to challenge the very notion of what constitutes a "same-sex" or an "opposite-sex" relationship, marriage, and family Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: queer families and the development of the sociological imagination

Trans partnerships and families: historical traces and contemporary representations

Identity shifts, recognition, and intersectionality in trans partnerships and families

Queering family labor: managing households, relationships, and transitions

Bodies, sexuality, and intimacy in trans partnerships and families

(Re)producing trans families: accessing social, legal, and medical recognition and technologies

It takes a village, people: social strain and support for trans partnerships and families

Conclusion: toward broader and more inclusive notions of family in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780199908059

0199908052

OCLC:

956633891

Publisher Number:

40026642320