Queer Kinship: South African Perspectives on the Sexual Politics of Family-Making and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780367188023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 str.

Tracy Morison; Ingrid Lynch; Vasu Reddy

Opis

This collection from leading and emerging thinkers in gender and sexualities interrogates the politics of belonging, shining a light on the outcasts, rebels, and pioneers. Queer Kinship brings together an array of thought-provoking perspectives on what it means to love and be loved, to ‘do family’ and to belong in the South African context.

Spis treści

Part 1: The politics of belonging - questioning queer kinship and belonging  1. Chosen family: A photographic essay  2. Focus on 'the family'? How South African family policy fails queer families  3. Revisiting 'familyhood' and queer belonging: Exploring queer collectivities created through culture and leisure practices  4. Spectres to come: Reproductive futurism, queer Africa, die-ins and drag  5. Esibathandayo / Kin we love: An essay  Part 2: Domestic and parenthood desires - the voices of queer youth  6. The domestic desires of queer youth: Narratives of domesticity and dissent among queer students at three South African universities  7. Surviving hererosexism: Queer youth's parenthood intentions  Part 3: Lesbian women's marriage and family-making  8. 'Mna ndiyayazi uba ndizotshata intombazana' / I...., for one, know that I will marry a woman': (Re)creating 'family' and reflections on rural lesbian women's experiences of child rearing and kinship  9. Just a piece of paper: Marriage and family formation for lesbian women in South Africa  10. Integration and emergence: Black lesbians re/negotiating marriage and lobola  Part IV: Queer men's production and performance of family  11. The production and performance of 'queer' family by African men who engage in same-sex relations  12. 'Living two lives' and 'blending in': Reproductive citizenship and belonging in the parenthood narratives of gay men  13. Interracial gay partnerships in post-apartheid South Africa: The 'journey' of a heterosexual researcher  14. Queer Kinship in South Africa: Where to next?