A Psychological Retrospective on Power in the Contemporary Lesbian-Feminist Community

McCoy, Sherry; Hicks, Maureen

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“…To me, one of the most compelling aspects of my findings was that not all couples divided up labor equally, despite the dominant mantra that all same‐sex couples want to, and do, embody egalitarianism. Indeed, lesbian feminism, which emerged in the 1960s and 70s in part in response to the women's liberation movement's exclusion of lesbians (as well as sexism in the gay liberation movement), emphasized a (re)defining of intimate relationships in which power patterns were upended and equality was the ideal (Caldwell & Peplau, 1984; McCoy & Hicks, 1979). The lesbian parents whom I interviewed, as well as many other LGBTQ+ parents I encountered through my research, experienced a tension between what was expected of them, and what was good for them and their family.…”

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From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens

Goldberg

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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In this article, I employ a feminist perspective in examining the interconnections across my personal, professional, and political activities. Rather than smoothing out the inconsistencies, tensions, and difficult spots, I strive to engage with them as points of entry to deeper knowledge and understanding. I begin by discussing elements of my personal upbringing, and the ways that it shaped my lens on families and my interest in the hidden and less understood aspects of family life. I then examine my professional career and trajectory, and how it has shifted alongside changes in the sociopolitical landscape, the evolution of scholarship in LGBTQ+ families, and my own privilege. I also explore how I have grappled with but also leveraged the politicized and political nature of my research, and sought to be an agent of change beyond the four walls of the university. I end with my thoughts on the benefits of this type of reflexive exercise for new and seasoned scholars.

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From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens

Goldberg

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Individuality Without Individualism: Review of Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends

Friedman¹

1988

Hypatia

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This review of Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends focuses on her strong sense of the individual and of individuality. However, and this is the central contention of my paper, her perspective is quite distinct from liberal individualism. It is also a compkx variation on the feminist concern with selves in relationships.One of the many themes which runs through Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends' is a strong notion of individuality. This theme threads its way through all facets of Raymond's conception of the Self, with its unique cognitive emphasis and perfectionist norms, and it appears as well in her moderated version of relational and collectivist values.Even the typeface reveals Raymond's concern for individuality. Her text presents us visually with the "capitalized Self;" the word 'self' is capitalized every time it appears. Remarkably, the word 'other' is never capitalized, although 'Gydaffection' is. This might be cause for some initial concern. Theorizing of this sort runs the risk of backsliding into a kind of revisionist liberal feminism. I wondered, at first, whether the capitalized Self is a thin disguise for the capitalist Self. Is it the abstracted, self-interested, mutually disinterested, utility-maximizing, game theoretic, rational agent of modern liberal thought? The answer is a clear "no." Raymond offers us the cautious promise of a feminist renewal of individuality. Her conception might well be called "individuality without individualism. "Raymond's insistence on the importance of individuality is always related to contexts of female friendship and women's communities. It is the individual woman in relationships who occupies Raymond's attention. This emphasis is quite explicit in her discussion of the value of women's religious communities. Convent life "at its best" features what Raymond considers an "instrucHypntiu vol. 3, no. 2 (Summer 1988) 0 by Marilyn Friedman

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From the Appendix toMother Camp

2000

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

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A Psychological Retrospective on Power in the Contemporary Lesbian-Feminist Community

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From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens

From safety in silence to speaking up for LGBTQ+ families: A reflection on the personal, professional, and political through a feminist lens

Individuality Without Individualism: Review of Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends

From the Appendix toMother Camp

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