ABSTRACT
In Chapter Three the author enters formally as analyst. Chapters Three, Four and Five are devoted to analyzing Valerie’s intersectional constellations at different social scales beginning with the most intimate—the family. Chapter Two has provided interviewees’ voices as a whole. No new interview data will be brought into any analytical chapter because there is no additional data. In the analytical chapters the data from every interviewee that is germane to the scale that is addressed in the corresponding chapter is extracted. Restricting the analysis to one social scale at a time—“scaling intersectionality”—is done for heuristic purposes. In Chapter Three this involves returning to what the central figure, Valerie, stated in her interview about her “identities” with regard to her family. The chapter identifies the axes of identification she articulates and then compares and contrasts what the other interviewees voice about Valerie for these same axes of identification at the same scale. After finishing the analysis of the voices’ data, scholarship not found in that original data is layered into the analysis. Research about Malaysian families and family structures as well as Chinese Malaysian families and family structures is introduced.
