Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds. It brings together stories from non-binary families across continents and cultures and recenters care as a foundational value for creating familial ties. This volume therefore addresses a gap in the literature concerning non-binary family configurations by going beyond the legal battle for non-binary partnership rights. In recent discussions on marriage equality, the notion of familial bonds, which was important in early discussions on non-binary family research, has been decentered in favor of legal and homonormative understandings of individual rights. This volume centers familial bonds as the first step toward reimagining how to do research on the family and adds to research on family studies as well as gender studies.
Students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, gender studies, family research, well-being research, and anyone else working on or with non-binary families will find this book highly topical and interesting.

Brings together international research on the notion of care in LGBTQ2 families Focuses on experiences of non-binary and trans family configurations Shows that discussions on marriage equality still do not include non-binary and trans families

Autorentext

Brian Joseph Gilley is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Two-Spirit and co-editor of Queer Indigenous Studies and Queering the Countryside.

Giuseppe Masullo is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Human, Philosophic and Education Sciences at the University of Salerno, Italy.

Inhalt

• Introduction. - Part I Methodologies and Epistemologies of LGBTQ2 Communities. - Social Research Methodologies to Understand LGBTQ+ Families. - Body and Sexuality Between Nature and Culture. - Finding Family and Affective Resistance to the Social Order. - Part II Expanding the Notion of LGBTQ2 Family. - Citizens of an Unqueered Nation: Tradition and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate in Indian Country. - Families in Sociocultural Change: From Structure to Relationship. - Scottish Same-Sex Families: Relational Negotiations and Belongings. - Transgender Couples' Lives: Between Specificity, the Need for Normalization, and New Forms of Social Discrimination. - Queering Motherhood and Mothering Queers in Morocco. - Part III Social and Legal Challenges of LGBTQ2 Parenting. - Coming Out into a Transparent Closet: Gays and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin. - Pluralizing the Debate on Same-Sex Parenting: Strategies and Narratives of Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual Relationships. - Same-Sex Parenting in Contemporary Italy: Constructing Parenthood on Insecure Grounds. - Mother and Father? Ideas and Possibilities of Starting a Family by Transgender and Nonbinary People in the Czech Republic. - Born to Be Different: LGBTQ2 Children of Heterosexual Families.