Overview
- Analyses lesbianism in the context of Chinese familialism and patrichalism
- Reviews the dramatic transformations that have profoundly changed women’s position within the family structure in the context of contemporary Taiwan
- Offers a major study on Taiwan’s lesbian family life, of interest both for scholars from Taiwan and LGBT studies across Asia
Part of the book series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia (GSCA)
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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.
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Book Title: Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life
Book Subtitle: Lesbianism, Patriarchalism and the Asian Family in Taiwan
Authors: Iris Erh-Ya Pai
Series Title: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4005-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4004-7Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5021-4Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4005-4Published: 11 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7884
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Asian Culture, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging