Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore

ISBN-13: 9781138389632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 148 str.

Sharon Ee Ling Quah

Opis

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. It uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnational divorcees at the field site of Singapore.

Spis treści

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Transnational divorce biography

3 Encountering borderland violence: constricted intimacies

4 Assembling masculinity projects: instrumental intimacies

5 Innovating for the sake of children: privileged intimacies

6 Being neither here nor there: entangled intimacies

7 Epilogue: fire dragon feminism

Appendix: Feminist methodological and reflection notes on decolonising research

References

Index

O autorze

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.