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Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life : Lesbianism, Patriarchalism and the Asian Family in Taiwan / by Iris Erh-Ya Pai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pai, Iris Erh-Ya, Author.
- Series:
- Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia, 2662-7892
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Ethnology--Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Sociology.
- Social groups.
- Gender Studies.
- Asian Culture.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Asian Culture.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVII, 285 p. 2 illus.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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. .
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789811040054
- 9811040052
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