Raising Questions about “the Conventional Family”: An Exploration of Lesbigay Families

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  • KAMANO Saori
    National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

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  • レズビアン家族とゲイ家族から「従来の家族」を問う可能性を探る
  • レズビアン カゾク ト ゲイ カゾク カラ ジュウライ ノ カゾク オ トウ カノウセイ オ サグル

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This paper explores how lesbigay families could raise questions in four aspects about “the conventional family,” which assumes monogamous heterosexual relationships and blood ties as the bases and in which gendered division of labor is reproduced. First, lesbigay people's “chosen family” of friends/communities questions who is included in the family. Second, the negotiations surrounding disclosure question the assumption that one obtains emotional support from blood families and the primacy of blood ties. Third, lesbigay parenting creates a possibility of having more than two parents and questions the assumption that procreation necessarily involves heterosexual relationships. Last, non-gendered division of and flexibilities in work and family duties offer an alternative to the typical way of relating among heterosexual couples. The paper concludes by discussing the difficulty of determining whether lesbigay families indicate “assimilation” or “transgression,” and suggests undertaking more detailed analyses that recognize the diversity of lesbigay families, and which pay attention to how particular configurations of lesbigay families could indicate both processes and which cultural, social and socio-economic contexts facilitate or inhibit these processes.

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