Routledge Queer Kinship South African Perspectives On The Sexual Politics Of Family-Making And Belonging 09780367777401

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What makes kinship queer? This collection from leading and emerging thinkers in gender and sexualities interrogates the politics of belonging shining a light on the outcasts rebels and pioneers. Queer Kinship brings together an array of thought-provoking perspectives on what it means to love and be loved to ‘do family’ and to belong in the South African context. The collection includes a number of different topic areas disciplinary approaches and theoretical lenses on familial relations reproduction and citizenship. The text amplifies the voices of those who are bending breaking and remaking the rules of being and belonging. Photo-essays and artworks offer moving glimpses into the new life worlds being created in and among the ‘normal’ and the mundane. Taken as a whole this text offers a critical and intersectional perspective that addresses some important gaps in the scholarship on kinship and families. Queer Kinship makes an innovative contribution to international studies in kinship gender and sexualities. It will be a valuable resource to scholars students and activists working in these areas. | Queer Kinship South African Perspectives on the Sexual politics of Family-making and Belonging