Non-binary family configurations : intersections of queerness and homonormativity / / Brian Joseph Gilley, Giuseppe Masullo, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910585793403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-031-05367-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.3
• Soggetti: Gender identity; Sexual minorities' families
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Queer Relatedness -- A Queer Ethic of Family -- Structure of This Book -- References -- Part I: Methodologies and Epistemologies of LGBTQ2 Communities -- Social Research Methodologies to Understand LGBTQ+ Families -- Introduction -- Methodologies to Understand LGBTQ+ Families Beyond Heteronormativity -- Comparative Approach -- Quantitative Versus Qualitative -- Considerations Moving Forward -- References -- Body and Sexuality Between Nature and Culture -- Introduction: Nature as a Cultural Product -- Body and Sexuality: The Cultural Domestication of Sex -- Sexuality and Conception: The New Social Imaginary of Asexual Conception -- Conclusion: A World Without Humans? -- References -- Finding Family and Affective Resistance to the Social Order -- Introduction -- Heteronormative Order and Society Game -- Subjectivity as an Instrument Effect -- The Form Power Takes -- The Scientist Trap -- Understanding LGBTQ2 Families -- References -- Part II: Expanding the Notion of LGBTQ2 Family -- Citizens of an Unqueered Nation: Tradition and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate in Indian Country -- Gender Diversity and the Cultural Crossfire -- National Culture and Sovereignty -- Was Same-Sex Marriage a Part of Traditional Culture? -- First Queers, Local Queers -- The Abuses of Tradition: The Cherokee Case -- A Queered Sovereignty -- References -- Families in Sociocultural Change: From Structure to Relationship -- Society and ; Sociocultural Change: A Necessary Premise -- The Family: A Problematic Political Category -- Historical Transformations of Family Models -- From Structure to Relationships: The Family Practice Approach -- References -- Scottish Same-Sex Families: Relational Negotiations and Belongings -- Introduction -- The Scottish Context -- Coming Out Stories -- Constructing Families -- Imagined Families -- Conclusion.; References -- Transgender Couples´ Lives: Between Specificity, the Need for Normalization, and New Forms of Social Discrimination -- Introduction -- Gender Identity, Transgenderism, and Gender Binarism: Some Key Concepts -- Transgender Families: Switch and Gender-Mixed Couples -- The Research Path -- Switch Couples: Heteronormativity and Sexual Normalization Processes -- Gender-Mixed Couples: The Reworking of the Sexual Label and the Search for Destigmatization -- Conclusions -- References -- Queering Motherhood and Mothering Queers in Morocco -- Motherhood: A Model for Normative Family Relations -- A Nonnormative Adoption Story -- Queering the Mother/Child Relationship -- References -- Part III: Social and Legal Challenges of LGBTQ2 Parenting -- Coming Out into a Transparent Closet: Gays and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin -- Introduction -- Transparent and Family Closets -- Coming Out Narratives and Strategies -- Parental Reactions to Coming Out -- Formation of the Transparent Closet -- Coping Strategies of Parents and Children After Coming Out and Transparent Closet -- Implications of Research on Coming Out for Same-Sex Families -- References -- Pluralizing the Debate on Same-Sex Parenting: Strategies and Narratives of Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual... -- Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual Relationships -- Method and Sample of the Research -- Narrating Family and Identity Transitions -- Family Arrangements -- Reproducing (Heterosexual) Family Bonds -- The Centrality of Children in the Making of a (Chosen) Family -- Redefining Parenting -- Final Remarks -- References -- Same-Sex Parenting in Contemporary Italy: Constructing Parenthood on Insecure Grounds -- Introduction: Construction of Parenting on Insecure Grounds -- Italy: No Country for Same-Sex Parent Families?.; The Research Project: Methods and Data -- Findings -- Conclusion -- References -- Mother and Father? Ideas and Possibilities of Starting a Family by Transgender and Nonbinary People in the Czech Republic -- Introduction -- Transgender and Nonbinary People in Gender Theories -- Normative Heterosexuality: The Czech Case -- Medical Discourse of Transsexuality and Its Historical Development in the Czech Republic -- The Parental Right -- Conclusion -- References -- Born to Be Different: LGBTQ2 Children of Heterosexual Families -- Straight Families as the Only Alternative: Challenging Heterosexuality and Heterosexism in Society -- LGBT Children and the Process of Coming Out -- Welcoming the LGBTQ2 Children: Good Practice for Parents -- References -- Glossary.