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...publication of a special issue of positions (29:3): "Productive Encounters: Kinship, Gender, and Family Laws in East Asia," edited by Seung-kyung Kim and Sara L. Friedman. You will find the table of contents, the freely available introduction, and Amy Brainer's article, made free through October 2021, at read.dukeupress.edu/positions/
Contributors to this special issue examine the intersections and tensions between the everyday lives of diverse families and the family laws and institutional mechanisms that create the scaffolding for recognized kinship relationships. Using the rubric of "productive encounters" to understand the ongoing engagements of law and family, the authors trace the unfolding of these engagements over a period of colonial and postcolonial reforms and the transitions from authoritarian to a democratic governance in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Table of Contents:
Seung-kyung Kim and Sara L. Friedman, Guest Editors' Introduction
Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan
Sungyun Lim, Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea
Allison Alexy, Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan
Sara L. Friedman and Yi-Chien Chen, Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
Linda White, Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry
Timothy Gitzen, The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
Amy Brainer, Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan
