| Description |
1 online resource (x, 138 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge studies in family sociology |
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Routledge studies in family sociology.
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| Contents |
Transnational divorce biography -- Encountering borderland violence : constricted intimacies -- Assembling masculinity projects : instrumental intimacies -- Innovating for the sake of children : privileged intimacies -- Being neither here nor there : entangled intimacies -- Epilogue : Fire dragon feminism -- Appendix : Feminist methodological and reflection notes on decolonising research |
| Summary |
"This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnational divorcees at the field site of Singapore, including low-income marriage migrant women from less wealthy countries, low-income citizen men, middle-class living apart together divorced parents and overseas-based citizen divorced mothers. Employing transnational, intersectional feminist perspectives, the book extends the author's earlier conceptualisation of divorce biography to propose a new framework of transnational divorce biography. The transnational divorce biography framework provides readers a useful analytical tool to make sense of transnational divorced individuals' messy experiences in working out their transborder intimacy practices. Meandering through their accounts, Transnational Divorce weaves together a strong narrative of inequalities and privileges at the site of intimate life. The book ends with an epilogue on fire dragon feminism where the author discusses place-based feminist mission of activism and resistance. The book will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational relationships, family studies and sociology in general"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sharon Ee Ling Quah is Senior Lecturer in Sociology with the University of Wollongong. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow with the National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, she holds a PhD in Sociology awarded by the University of Sydney. She is the author of Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore (2020), and Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (2015). Her research interests include decoloniality, feminisms, genders, sexualities, intimacies, emotions, families, race, migration, inequalities and social justice |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2020) |
| Subject |
Divorce -- Singapore
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Divorce -- Social aspects -- Singapore
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Divorced mothers -- Social conditions
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Divorced men -- Singapore -- Social conditions
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Intimacy (Psychology)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Divorce
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Divorce -- Social aspects
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Divorced mothers -- Social conditions
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Intimacy (Psychology)
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019053647 |
| ISBN |
9780429423789 |
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0429423780 |
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9780429753046 |
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0429753047 |
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9780429753039 |
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0429753039 |
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9780429753022 |
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0429753020 |
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