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Transnational Divorce: Understanding intimacies and inequalities from Singapore book cover

1st Edition

Transnational Divorce Understanding intimacies and inequalities from Singapore

By Sharon Ee Ling Quah Copyright 2020
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

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

Biography

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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