Titlebook: Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life; Lesbianism, Patriarc Iris Erh-Ya Pai Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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Women in Taiwanese Families: A Personal History,through them. This approach is also designed to position myself in my research and explain how social changes in contemporary Taiwan actually make it possible for lesbians to live their lives outside of patriarchal families.

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Methodology,veloped their sexual identities in various social settings and the ways they negotiated their sexuality with their families of origin. Couple interviews focused on relationship histories and the ways they committed to and conducted their relationships.

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Women in Taiwanese Families: A Personal History,seem to have benefitted from the social changes of the past few decades and have greater sexual autonomy than previous generations. The ambiguity between single women and unmarried lesbians has created more spaces for lesbians to form their own families, as has always been the case in Japan (cf. Kam

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Western Theories on Same-Sex Intimacies,ve been unthinkable to older generations. The fact that contemporary heterosexual and same-sex relationships are now equal in the eyes of the law in some Western countries has attracted research into the changes in formalised relationships provided by legislative changes. These new narratives are em

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Relationships Over Time,ips mainly through the Internet, at school and in LGBT communities. Most of my participants met their current partners at school or university, while four couples met in the workplace and four met on the Internet/in chat rooms. In the cases of schoolmates and colleagues, they often develop close fri

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Egalitarian Lesbian Relationships?,tern research illustrates the significance of egalitarian relationships in lesbianism (cf., Weston 1997; Dunne 1997; Weeks et al. 2001); except for Gabb’s, (2004) critique, their findings suggest that the lack of taken-for-granted guidelines from ‘gender scripts’ makes lesbian women feel relatively