التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
How Gay Men's Wives in China Practice Co-Cultural Communication: Culture, Identity, and Sense-Making. |
| المؤلفون: |
Lu Tang, Cui Zhang, Hongmei Li |
| المصدر: |
Conference Papers -- International Communication Association; 2018, p1-31, 31p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HETEROSEXUAL women, CHINESE women, HETEROSEXUALS, SENSEMAKING theory (Communication), CROSS-cultural communication |
| مستخلص: |
Around 13.6 million heterosexual women in China are married to gay or bisexual men, and they call themselves tongqi. Tongqi are simultaneously members of the co-cultural group (as women and wives) and the dominant group (as heterosexuals). Using narrative analysis, this paper examines 51 stories told by tongqi about their marriages to analyze their co-cultural communication strategies within and outside of their marriages. Furthermore, to understand why these co-cultural communication strategies are used, this paper analyzes how tongqi make sense of their marital relationships by examining how they narratively construct the co-cultural strategies of their gay husbands and the underlying ideological assumptions of such constructions (in terms of gender, orientation, marriage, and family). We argue that it is exactly their internationalization of these ideologies that make them both dominant and co-cultural group members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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