Sara L Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 151233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara L Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9637-2543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cost Considerations for Rapid Start Implementation
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation within days of HIV diagnosis, also known as “Rapid Start”, improves linkage to care, virologic suppression and retention in care. However, data on the costs of Rapid Start implementation in the United States are limited. We aimed to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of Rapid Start among seven geographically diverse Ryan White-funded programs with broad variability in populations served and service…
Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents
This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized. Focusing on LGBTQ intending parents in Taiwan who must travel internationally to access assisted reproductive technologies (ART) due to legal …
Racial Differences in Stigmatizing and Positive Language in Emergency Medicine Notes
Afterlives of Anders als die Andern and of Weimar
This article uses reconstructions of the 1919 German LGBTQ+ rights film Anders als die Andern ( Different from the Others ) to consider the meaning of the Weimar Republic. It surveys Weimar's historiography, memorialization efforts, public commemorations, museums, and film reconstruction, drawing connections between these fields. The film as an incomplete document becomes a metaphor for incomplete histories. As such, it offers suggestions for eng…
Opting out of the city
This article responds to calls among anthropologists to attend to the aspirational qualities of life pursuits by respecting idealized life visions and acknowledging the suggestiveness of living otherwise. It follows a cohort of formerly urban middle-class Chinese families that have chosen to 'opt out' of their successful city lives to pursue alternative lifestyles and education for their children in China's rural southwest. Drawing on literatures…
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
Productive Encounters
Recent decades have brought tremendous change to families, and the laws governing families, across East Asia. From new household forms -including divorcees, single parents, adults living alone or with chosen kin, same-sex couples, and transnational marriages -to shifting ideologies of how families should be organized and kinship ties recognized, families have been at the center of substantial social and political change across the region. This sp…
Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep …
Hung Ling-Yu 洪玲玉 (25 February 1975-26 Abril 2018)
Hung Ling-Yu 洪玲玉 (25 February 1975–26 April 2018) Hung Ling-Yu, Tristram R. Kidder, and Sara Friedman Click for larger view View full resolution Dr. Hung Ling-yu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, passed away after a long battle with cancer on 26 April 2018. Ling-yu received her B.A. in Anthropology from National Taiwan University and an M.A. in Archaeology from Peking University. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Departme…
Men who ‘Marry Out’
Family reunification has become a widely recognized means to move across borders in the contemporary world. As a migration strategy, family reunification redefines the relationship of kinship to nation, diversifying the ‘national family’ and its gendered role expectations. This article uses cross-border marriages between Chinese and Taiwanese to interrogate how immigration affects the experiences of men who migrate through or in conjunction with …
Stranger Anxiety
This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces the concept of "stranger anxiety" to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Worki…
Wedding Marriage to the Nation-State in Modern China
Exceptional States
"Between 10% and 20% of marriages in Taiwan involve the union of a Taiwanese national with a Chinese immigrant, with as many as 13,000 cross-Strait couples registering new unions each year. Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and governance emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War legacies continue to shape contemporary political struggles over sovereignty and citizenship. This book poignantly an…
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers
What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as Asia's century, this book turns to the more intimate territory of sexuality and marriage—and observes the unprecedented changes in the law and popular expectations for romantic bonds and the creation…
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Rethinking Intimate Labor through Inter-Asian Migrations
Determining 'truth' at the border
As Taiwan transitions from an immigrant-sending to an immigrant-receiving country, it struggles to build an immigration bureaucracy while its status as a sovereign nation-state is not recognized by much of the international community. Taiwan's largest immigrant group, marital migrants from China, are perceived as posing the greatest challenges to border control due to longstanding political tensions between the two countries and governmental and …
Marital Immigration and Graduated Citizenship
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have witnessed dramatic transformations in migration and immigration patterns in East Asia, with many immigrant-sending nations becoming immigration destinations themselves. In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this in-migration has largely taken the form of family reunification, with marital immigration as the main path to naturalized citizenship. Chinese spouses, primarily female, have…
Just One Child
The Violence of Liberation
WatchingTwin Braceletsin China
This article asks what a sustained ethnographic approach to media reception can teach us about the processes of identification and disavowal that take place when audiences consume media that for them is both fictional and realistic. Focusing on Chinese viewers' responses to the film Shuang zhuo (Twin Bracelets), I examine the commentaries generated in the context of film viewing and show how they enabled viewers to redefine representational genre…
The intimacy of state power
Marriage is a powerful institution in which state regulation and sexual normalization converge to link personal desires with state goals. In socialist China, marital reforms have been part of the regime's efforts to cultivate liberated socialist subjects. I focus on a coastal region known for its distinctive marriage customs, arguing that the development of socialist state power there was premised on the forging of female subjects committed to ne…
Spoken pleasures and dangerous desires
Marital Immigration and Graduated Citizenship
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have witnessed dramatic transformations in migration and immigration patterns in East Asia, with many immigrant-sending nations becoming immigration destinations themselves. In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this in-migration has largely taken the form of family reunification, with marital immigration as the main path to naturalized citizenship. Chinese spouses, primarily female, have…
The intimacy of state power
Marriage is a powerful institution in which state regulation and sexual normalization converge to link personal desires with state goals. In socialist China, marital reforms have been part of the regime's efforts to cultivate liberated socialist subjects. I focus on a coastal region known for its distinctive marriage customs, arguing that the development of socialist state power there was premised on the forging of female subjects committed to ne…
Opting out of the city
This article responds to calls among anthropologists to attend to the aspirational qualities of life pursuits by respecting idealized life visions and acknowledging the suggestiveness of living otherwise. It follows a cohort of formerly urban middle-class Chinese families that have chosen to 'opt out' of their successful city lives to pursue alternative lifestyles and education for their children in China's rural southwest. Drawing on literatures…
Determining 'truth' at the border
As Taiwan transitions from an immigrant-sending to an immigrant-receiving country, it struggles to build an immigration bureaucracy while its status as a sovereign nation-state is not recognized by much of the international community. Taiwan's largest immigrant group, marital migrants from China, are perceived as posing the greatest challenges to border control due to longstanding political tensions between the two countries and governmental and …
WatchingTwin Braceletsin China
This article asks what a sustained ethnographic approach to media reception can teach us about the processes of identification and disavowal that take place when audiences consume media that for them is both fictional and realistic. Focusing on Chinese viewers' responses to the film Shuang zhuo (Twin Bracelets), I examine the commentaries generated in the context of film viewing and show how they enabled viewers to redefine representational genre…
Spoken pleasures and dangerous desires
Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep …
Men who ‘Marry Out’
Family reunification has become a widely recognized means to move across borders in the contemporary world. As a migration strategy, family reunification redefines the relationship of kinship to nation, diversifying the ‘national family’ and its gendered role expectations. This article uses cross-border marriages between Chinese and Taiwanese to interrogate how immigration affects the experiences of men who migrate through or in conjunction with …
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
Stranger Anxiety
This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces the concept of "stranger anxiety" to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Worki…
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Spoken pleasures and dangerous desires
The intimacy of state power
Marriage is a powerful institution in which state regulation and sexual normalization converge to link personal desires with state goals. In socialist China, marital reforms have been part of the regime's efforts to cultivate liberated socialist subjects. I focus on a coastal region known for its distinctive marriage customs, arguing that the development of socialist state power there was premised on the forging of female subjects committed to ne…
WatchingTwin Braceletsin China
This article asks what a sustained ethnographic approach to media reception can teach us about the processes of identification and disavowal that take place when audiences consume media that for them is both fictional and realistic. Focusing on Chinese viewers' responses to the film Shuang zhuo (Twin Bracelets), I examine the commentaries generated in the context of film viewing and show how they enabled viewers to redefine representational genre…
The Violence of Liberation
Determining 'truth' at the border
As Taiwan transitions from an immigrant-sending to an immigrant-receiving country, it struggles to build an immigration bureaucracy while its status as a sovereign nation-state is not recognized by much of the international community. Taiwan's largest immigrant group, marital migrants from China, are perceived as posing the greatest challenges to border control due to longstanding political tensions between the two countries and governmental and …
Marital Immigration and Graduated Citizenship
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have witnessed dramatic transformations in migration and immigration patterns in East Asia, with many immigrant-sending nations becoming immigration destinations themselves. In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this in-migration has largely taken the form of family reunification, with marital immigration as the main path to naturalized citizenship. Chinese spouses, primarily female, have…
Just One Child
Rethinking Intimate Labor through Inter-Asian Migrations
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers
What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as Asia's century, this book turns to the more intimate territory of sexuality and marriage—and observes the unprecedented changes in the law and popular expectations for romantic bonds and the creation…
Exceptional States
"Between 10% and 20% of marriages in Taiwan involve the union of a Taiwanese national with a Chinese immigrant, with as many as 13,000 cross-Strait couples registering new unions each year. Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and governance emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War legacies continue to shape contemporary political struggles over sovereignty and citizenship. This book poignantly an…
Wedding Marriage to the Nation-State in Modern China
Men who ‘Marry Out’
Family reunification has become a widely recognized means to move across borders in the contemporary world. As a migration strategy, family reunification redefines the relationship of kinship to nation, diversifying the ‘national family’ and its gendered role expectations. This article uses cross-border marriages between Chinese and Taiwanese to interrogate how immigration affects the experiences of men who migrate through or in conjunction with …
Stranger Anxiety
This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces the concept of "stranger anxiety" to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Worki…
Hung Ling-Yu 洪玲玉 (25 February 1975-26 Abril 2018)
Hung Ling-Yu 洪玲玉 (25 February 1975–26 April 2018) Hung Ling-Yu, Tristram R. Kidder, and Sara Friedman Click for larger view View full resolution Dr. Hung Ling-yu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, passed away after a long battle with cancer on 26 April 2018. Ling-yu received her B.A. in Anthropology from National Taiwan University and an M.A. in Archaeology from Peking University. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Departme…
Productive Encounters
Recent decades have brought tremendous change to families, and the laws governing families, across East Asia. From new household forms -including divorcees, single parents, adults living alone or with chosen kin, same-sex couples, and transnational marriages -to shifting ideologies of how families should be organized and kinship ties recognized, families have been at the center of substantial social and political change across the region. This sp…
Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep …
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
Opting out of the city
This article responds to calls among anthropologists to attend to the aspirational qualities of life pursuits by respecting idealized life visions and acknowledging the suggestiveness of living otherwise. It follows a cohort of formerly urban middle-class Chinese families that have chosen to 'opt out' of their successful city lives to pursue alternative lifestyles and education for their children in China's rural southwest. Drawing on literatures…
Afterlives of Anders als die Andern and of Weimar
This article uses reconstructions of the 1919 German LGBTQ+ rights film Anders als die Andern ( Different from the Others ) to consider the meaning of the Weimar Republic. It surveys Weimar's historiography, memorialization efforts, public commemorations, museums, and film reconstruction, drawing connections between these fields. The film as an incomplete document becomes a metaphor for incomplete histories. As such, it offers suggestions for eng…
Racial Differences in Stigmatizing and Positive Language in Emergency Medicine Notes
Cost Considerations for Rapid Start Implementation
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation within days of HIV diagnosis, also known as “Rapid Start”, improves linkage to care, virologic suppression and retention in care. However, data on the costs of Rapid Start implementation in the United States are limited. We aimed to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of Rapid Start among seven geographically diverse Ryan White-funded programs with broad variability in populations served and service…
Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents
This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized. Focusing on LGBTQ intending parents in Taiwan who must travel internationally to access assisted reproductive technologies (ART) due to legal …
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · China (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works)