Gender and Family Practices - Shuang Qiu

Gender and Family Practices

Living Apart Together Relationships in China

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
XIII, 183 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-17252-6 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

This book examines how gender and heterosexuality structure the lived experiences of people in living apart together (LAT) relationships in contemporary Chinese society. Using in-depth interview data with Chinese LAT people of different ages, the author explores why they live apart; how they construct and make sense of their everyday family lives and negotiate their gender roles; and how they experience intimacy while being physically apart. This text sheds new insights on non-cohabitating intimate partnerships by bringing together themes of gender, family, intimacy, and relationality. Through looking at people's lived experiences in LAT relationships, it argues that practices of family and intimacy are closely implicated with doing gender, and consequently, that gendered family lives and heterosexuality are reconstructed, rather than deconstructed, in order to reclaim conventional forms of family and gender norms in Chinese social, historical and cultural contexts.

This bookwill be of interest to scholars across Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Family Studies, in addition to scholars of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

Shuang Qiu is a Lecturer in Sociology based in the School of Social, Political and Global Studies at Keele University. She obtained her PhD in Women's Studies from the University of York and her research interests lie in the field of sociology of the family, intimacy, gender and sexualities, agency, emotion, and East Asian studies. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociological Research Online and Families, Relationships, and Societies.

1. Understanding 'Living Apart Together' (LAT) Relationships.- 2. Detraditionalisation and Retraditionalisation of Family Lives: Gender, Marriage and Intimacy.- 3. Reconsidered Agency: Why Do People Live Apart?.- 4. Doing Family at a Distance: How Different Are LAT Relationships to 'Conventional' Partnerships?.- 5. Doing Intimacy While Being Apart: Practices of Mobile Intimacy, Emotion and Filial Piety.- 6. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo XIII, 183 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 266 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte feminist epistemology • Filial Piety • heterosexual • intimacy • marriage
ISBN-10 3-031-17252-3 / 3031172523
ISBN-13 978-3-031-17252-6 / 9783031172526
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