Love and Pride in the times of DOMA
(2019) SIMV18 20191Graduate School
Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This qualitative study explores the ways children of same-sex attracted (SSA) parents engage in everyday political resistance. Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and theoretical notions of resistance and politicization of identities are foundations of this work. Narrative methodology was used to analyze eight interviews with adult children of SSA parents along with relevant previous studies. In this study I establish that children of SSA parents born in the 1980s/1990s in the US form a political generation with a particular politicized identity. They engage in everyday political resistance against the dominant narrative in the US that families are formed by married, procreative, heterosexual couples – the master-narrative... (More)
- This qualitative study explores the ways children of same-sex attracted (SSA) parents engage in everyday political resistance. Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and theoretical notions of resistance and politicization of identities are foundations of this work. Narrative methodology was used to analyze eight interviews with adult children of SSA parents along with relevant previous studies. In this study I establish that children of SSA parents born in the 1980s/1990s in the US form a political generation with a particular politicized identity. They engage in everyday political resistance against the dominant narrative in the US that families are formed by married, procreative, heterosexual couples – the master-narrative of the US family. This resistance manifests through disclosure practices and narrativization. I categorize the key disclosure practices as 1) political disclosure 2) non-political disclosure 3) political nondisclosure, and the key resistance narratives as 1) normality 2) pride 3) family. These everyday practices are political resistance because they challenge the hegemony of the master-narrative and demand a new political order in which the institution of family is not dictated by the heterosexual matrix. This highlights the salience of narrative and disclosure practices in understanding politics and the political. (Less)
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- author
- James, Faith LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Everyday political resistance of adults who grew up with same-sex attracted parents
- course
- SIMV18 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Everyday Political Resistance, Disclosure Practices, Resistance Narratives, Children of SSA parents, Queer / LGBTQIA+ Families
- language
- English
- id
- 8982164
- date added to LUP
- 2019-08-23 13:53:47
- date last changed
- 2019-08-23 13:53:51
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