Overview
- Applies a queer framework to issues of kinship
- Engages with questions of visibility, inclusion/exclusion and family members as allies
- Offers important contributions to kinship studies, LGBT studies and postsocialist studies, as well as research on intimate citizenship
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Set against the backdrop of a country which upholds a heteronormative and narrow view of family, this book provides insights into the lives of Hungarian same-sex couples and their heterosexual relatives. Béres-Deák utilizes the theoretical framework of intimate citizenship, as well as findings from ethnographic interviews, participant observation and online sources. Instead of emphasizing the divide between non-heterosexual people and their heterosexual kin, the author recognizes that these members of queer families share many similar experiences and challenges.Queer Families in Hungary looks at experiences of coming out, negotiation of visibility, and kinship practices, and offers valuable insights into how individuals and families can resist heterosexist constraints through their discourses and practices. Students and scholars researching kinship studies, LGBT and queer studies, post-socialist studies, and citizenship studies, will find this book of interest.
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Reviews
“The diverse and creative ways in which these families approach parenting, gender arrangements, and ultimately their understandings of kinship not only speak to their incredible resilience but also offers a road map to how heterosexual families could alter and overcome heteronormative and strictly gendered kinship.” (Anita Kurimay, Hungarian Studies Review, Vol. 50 (1-2), November, 2023)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rita Béres-Deák is a cultural anthropologist and LGBTQ activist based in Hungary.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queer Families in Hungary
Book Subtitle: Same-Sex Couples, Families of Origin, and Kinship
Authors: Rita Béres-Deák
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16319-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 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 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16318-1Published: 28 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16321-1Published: 28 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16319-8Published: 20 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender and Sexuality, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Structure, Social Inequality