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- Title
(De)Militarized Domesticity: Reconfiguring Marriage, Gender, and Family among Filipino Navy Couples.
- Authors
Suarez, Theresa C.
- Abstract
Through sixty in-depth interviews conducted with immigrant Filipino Navy families in San Diego, California between 2004 and 2005, I examine how the U.S. military, as a colonial institution, transformed conceptions of race, gender, and family and reconfigured these structures by regulating and authorizing certain notions of intimacy, marriage, motherhood/fatherhood, and family life based on an ideal of white bourgeois domesticity. I argue that the family construct that promotes social and cultural citizenship for Filipino Navy families can potentially destabilize the U.S. military institution.
- Subjects
FILIPINO American families; MARRIAGE; UNITED States. Navy
- Publication
Women, Gender & Families of Color, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2, p190
- ISSN
2326-0939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/womgenfamcol.3.2.0190