Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life : Lesbianism, Patriarchalism and the Asian Family in Taiwan

• Main Author: Pai, Iris Erh-Ya. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811040054
• Physical Description: XVII, 285 p. 2 illus. online resource.

This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has...