Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families

ISBN-13: 9780881632385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 192 str.

Ann D'Ercole; Jack Drescher

Opis

What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention address this question through a clinical focus that supplants the heterosexual perspectives of traditional psychoanalysis with new narratives about family life. Drawing on cultural, feminist, gay/lesbian, and queer studies, they illustrate how concepts of gender and sexuality are routinely informed by unproven heterosexist assumptions - both conscious and unconscious. Just as unarticulated assumptions about gender and sexual identify inform cultural conceptions of who is, and who is not, a person, so these same assumptions shape our understanding of what is, and what is not, a couple or family. By examining the changing developmental needs and family dynamics of gay and lesbian families, the contributors broaden our very understanding of what a family is. They illustrate how contrasting cultural constructions of homosexuality and family life play out in same-sex couples. They delineate the multiple realities of gender subjectivity, both in children and in their gay parents. They ponder how technology is shaping reproductive experiences, as lesbians become part of the biomedic

Spis treści

D'Ercole, Drescher, Introduction. Schwartz, Ozzie and Harriet Are Dead: New Family Narratives in a Postmodern World. Suchet, Gender "Indifference": Gender Development in Lesbian-Parented Families. Cheuvront, Couples, Imagined. D'Ercole, The Interplay of Difference and Shame: A Lesbian Couple in Treatment. Levitz, Is This Normal? Uncovering the Role of Homophobia in the Treatment of a Lesbian Couple. Glazer, Teasing Apart Gender, Object Choice, and Motherhood in Lesbian Relationships. Mamo, The Lesbian "Great American Sperm Hunt": A Sociological Analysis of Selecting Donors and Constructing Relatedness. Iasenza, Passion, Play, and Erotic Potential Space in Lesbian Relationships. Locker, One Plus One Equals One: Financial Madness in Same-Sex Relationships.

O autorze

Ann D'Ercole (Author) ,  Jack Drescher (Author)