Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds. It brings together stories from non-binary families across continents and cultures and recenters care as a foundational value for creating familial ties. This volume therefore addresses a gap in the literature concerning non-binary family configurations by going beyond the legal battle for non-binary partnership rights. In recent discussions on marriage equality, the notion of familial bonds, which was important in early discussions on non-binary family research, has been decentered in favor of legal and homonormative understandings of individual rights. This volume centers familial bonds as the first step toward reimagining how to do research on the family and adds to research on family studies as well as gender studies.
Students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, gender studies, family research, well-being research, and anyone else working on or with non-binary families will find this book highly topical and interesting.

Author: Brian Joseph Gilley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 07/21/2023
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9783031053696

About the Author

Brian Joseph Gilley is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Two-Spirit and co-editor of Queer Indigenous Studies and Queering the Countryside.

Giuseppe Masullo is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Human, Philosophic and Education Sciences at the University of Salerno, Italy.