Shawna Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawna Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawna |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering
In this article, I bring together a set of three disjunctive scenes in Singapore relating to Chinese mothers, straight and lesbian. First, what has been called “the AWARE saga” in 2009; second, graduate mothers in the 1980s; and third, lesbian mothering in contemporary time. In this triangulation, my analysis focuses on educated Chinese women and mothers across historical contexts as paradigmatic formations of a protected class encouraged to repr…
Queer Southeast Asia
Queer Southeast Asia
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while e…
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while e…
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
Queer Southeast Asia
Queer Southeast Asia
Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering
In this article, I bring together a set of three disjunctive scenes in Singapore relating to Chinese mothers, straight and lesbian. First, what has been called “the AWARE saga” in 2009; second, graduate mothers in the 1980s; and third, lesbian mothering in contemporary time. In this triangulation, my analysis focuses on educated Chinese women and mothers across historical contexts as paradigmatic formations of a protected class encouraged to repr…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Lesbian (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Cultural (2 works) · Cultural Policy (2 works) · Gender identity (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works)