Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Though aunties are ubiquitous figures across global public cultures, they have received limited scholarly attention. Given the location of these women, femme, and queer figures at the periphery of nuclear families, it is little surprise that they are overlooked. Rather than fixate on their marginality, this introduction demonstrates how aunties become abundant figures to think kinship, desire, aesthetics, and politics. Examining academic and arts-based discussions of aunties, the special-issue editor connects labor associated with aunties to aesthetics they are known for. In addition to being embodied, fleshy, working figures, aunties offer methodological optics for critical study and strategies for navigating academic institutions.
Source: Text and Performance Quarterly
Author: Kareem Khubchandani
Institution: Tufts University
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4283368826