Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2021
Abstract
This paper considers how socio-political prescriptions can bring about the queering of futurity in Singapore. In Singapore, state-sponsored narratives of progress view futurity in terms that are bound to place, and reproduced through the heteronormative family unit. These factors have caused constructions of masculinity to be tethered to the family, and placed within public housing. Recently, this narrative has become an increasingly inflexible and marginalizing construct that can cause straight males to be queered by their prescribed futures. In contrast, gay males are more likely to be untethered from their families, and thus occupy “unplaced” positions in Singapore’s social structure.
Keywords
Queering futurity, (un)tethered masculinities, heteronormativity, Chinese families, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Gender and Sexuality | Sociology of Culture
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Sexualities
First Page
1
Last Page
15
ISSN
1363-4607
Identifier
10.1177/13634607211028111
Publisher
SAGE
Embargo Period
7-6-2021
Citation
WOODS, Orlando.(2021). (Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore. Sexualities, , 1-15.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3322
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211028111