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Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity

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Editors:
  1. Brian Joseph Gilley

    1. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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  2. Giuseppe Masullo

    1. Department of Human, Philosophical and Education Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

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  • Brings together international research on the notion of care in LGBTQ2 families
  • Focuses on experiences of non-binary and trans family configurations
  • Shows that discussions on marriage equality still do not include non-binary and trans families

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Brian Joseph Gilley, Alexandra S. Marcotte, Giuseppe Masullo
    Pages 1-7

  3. Methodologies and Epistemologies of LGBTQ2 Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Social Research Methodologies to Understand LGBTQ+ Families

      • Fabio Corbisiero
      Pages 11-22

    3. Body and Sexuality Between Nature and Culture

      • Paola Di Nicola
      Pages 23-36

    4. Finding Family and Affective Resistance to the Social Order

      • Massimo Del Forno
      Pages 37-49

  5. Social and Legal Challenges of LGBTQ2 Parenting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Coming Out into a Transparent Closet: Gays and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin

      • Roman Kuhar, Alenka Švab
      Pages 125-139

    3. Pluralizing the Debate on Same-Sex Parenting: Strategies and Narratives of Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual Relationships

      • Luca Trappolin
      Pages 141-155

    4. Same-Sex Parenting in Contemporary Italy: Constructing Parenthood on Insecure Grounds

      • Salvatore Monaco, Urban Nothdurfter
      Pages 157-170

    5. Mother and Father? Ideas and Possibilities of Starting a Family by Transgender and Nonbinary People in the Czech Republic

      • Iva Baslarová, Jitka Círklová, Giuseppe Maiello
      Pages 171-187

    6. Born to Be Different: LGBTQ2 Children of Heterosexual Families

      • Claudio Cappotto, Cirus Rinaldi, Marco Bacio
      Pages 189-204

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-206
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Brian Joseph Gilley

  • Department of Human, Philosophical and Education Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Giuseppe Masullo

About the editors

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. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity

  • Editors: Brian Joseph Gilley, Giuseppe Masullo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05367-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05366-5Published: 20 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05369-6Published: 21 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05367-2Published: 18 July 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology, general, Social Anthropology, Social Work

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