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Gender and Family Practices: Living Apart Together Relationships in China

Gender and Family Practices: Living Apart Together Relationships in China

Qiu, Shuang

Hardcover

Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences

PhilosophyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031172493
ISBN13: 9783031172496
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 2 2023
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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