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- Title
DISCIPLINING GAY AND LESBIAN FAMILY LIFE.
- Authors
WILSON, BLAIR
- Abstract
Despite the myriad ways in which family is constituted and performed in the present, the 1950s aesthetic of family life remains commonplace in family studies and popular media. This is problematic, in that it marginalises all of those who do not fit within this very rigid aesthetic composition. With the advent of the "gaybaby" boom and shifting social mores, queer families are becoming more visible in academic literature and society at large. Yet rather than fostering the creative potentiality of queer families, dominant heteronormative discourses are reinscribing the 1950s family aesthetic through the creation of the homonormative family. By conducting a critical discourse analysis of the experience of transition for lesbian and gay parents, the present study investigates how heteronormative discourses manifest in the research on the gay and lesbian family life cycle.
- Subjects
LESBIAN families; GAY families; CRITICAL discourse analysis; GAY parents; LESBIAN mothers
- Publication
Gay & Lesbian Issues & Psychology Review, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
1833-4512
- Publication type
Article