Gender and family practices : living apart together relationships in China / / Shuang Qiu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910639897003321
• Autore: Qiu Shuang
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031172502; 9783031172496
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 pages)
• Collana: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences Series
• Disciplina: 306.850951
• Soggetti: Families - China; Couples
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Understanding 'Living Apart Together' (LAT) Relationships -- Introduction -- What Is an LAT Relationship and Why Does It Matter? -- Who Lives Apart from Their Partner and Why? -- Is LAT a New Family Form or a Temporary Stage? -- Researching People in LATs in China -- Approaching LAT People -- Reflexivity, Power Dynamics and Positionality -- Getting Familiar with the Data and Data Analysis -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Detraditionalisation and Retraditionalisation of Family Lives: Gender, Marriage and Intimacy -- Introduction -- The Grand Theories: Modernity, Gender and Transformations of Intimacy in the West -- Contextualising Social Change in China -- Gender Relations and Family Life in China -- Women, Love and Family -- Changing Marital Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Reconsidered Agency: Why Do People Live Apart? -- Introduction -- Conceptualising Agency and Relationality -- Structural Constraints -- Labour Mobility: Out-Migration of Men and Left-Behind Women -- External Authoritative Forces -- Negotiated Agency: Family Values and Hegemonic Ideas About Marriage -- Relational Bonds with Family Members -- Friendship -- Relational Individualism: Reflexivity and Life Stages -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Doing Family at a Distance: How Different Are ; LAT Relationships to 'Conventional' Partnerships? -- Introduction -- The Stories of Six Study Mothers -- Continuity in Family Practices -- Reciprocal Family Practices: 'I Hope My Children Can Do Things That I Might Not Have the Chance to Do' -- Gendered Family Practices: 'I'd Like to More or Less Make It Up to Him' -- Everyday Family Practices and Identity Construction -- Everyday Practices of Doing Gender: 'His Three Meals a Day Had Me Trapped'.; Negotiating Gender Roles and Identity Construction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Doing Intimacy While Being Apart: Practices of Mobile Intimacy, Emotion and Filial Piety -- Introduction -- Doing Intimacy in a Mediated Digital Age -- Practices of Mobile Intimacy -- Potential Risks -- Emotional Intimacy -- Embodied Practices of Intimacy -- Practices of Gift-Giving -- Practices of Filial Piety -- Parent-Child Intimacy -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- Index.