Transnational divorce biography -- Encountering borderland violence : constricted intimacies -- Assembling masculinity projects : instrumental intimacies -- Innovating for the sake of children : privileged intimacies -- Being neither here nor there : entangled intimacies -- Epilogue : Fire dragon feminism -- Appendix : Feminist methodological and reflection notes on decolonising research.
Summary:
"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. Employing transnational, intersectional feminist perspectives, the book extends the author's earlier conceptualisation of divorce biography to propose a new framework of transnational divorce biography. The transnational divorce biography framework provides readers a useful analytical tool to make sense of transnational divorced individuals' messy experiences in working out their transborder intimacy practices. Meandering through their accounts, Transnational Divorce weaves together a strong narrative of inequalities and privileges at the site of intimate life. The book ends with an epilogue on fire dragon feminism where the author discusses place-based feminist mission of activism and resistance. The book will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational relationships, family studies and sociology in general"-- Provided by publisher.
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