Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

Blume, Libby Balter; Blume, Thomas W.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00785.x

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“…However, this study adds greater complexity and nuance to understanding transgender experiences and consequences for parent–child relationships. Findings support the idea that transgender identity development is a dynamic and dialectical process of examining and reexamining gender through interactional processes with parents (Blume & Blume, ; Diamond et al, ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth

Catalpa

McGuire

2018

Family Relations

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Objective To explore family boundary ambiguity in the parent–child relationships of transgender youth. Background Transgender youth may perceive a lack of clarity about whether parents will accept their authentic gender expression, continue to support them physically and emotionally, and regard them as a member of the family. Uncertainty about being in or out of the family and whether family relationships endure is stressful and can lead to psychological distress, a sense of ambiguous loss, and frozen grief. Method Ethnographic content analysis was conducted based on interviews with 90 transgender youth recruited from community centers in 10 regions across 3 countries. Results Narratives revealed that transgender youth experienced family boundary ambiguity related to relational ambiguity, structural ambiguity, and identity ambiguity. Each experience of ambiguity obscured whether participants remained in the family and interpersonally connected to their parents. Conclusion Transgender youth actively navigated complex and ambiguous parent–child relationships whereby participants attempted to reconcile their need for authentic gender expression combined with their need for family connectedness and acceptance. Implications Family clinicians, educators, and policymakers are urged to consider family and transgender resilience through a lens of ambiguous loss and to promote a gender‐affirmative life‐span approach to clinical care for transgender individuals and their families.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth

Catalpa

McGuire

2018

Family Relations

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“…Given the multiple cultural gender discourses that contemporary couples must manage (Blume & Blume, 2003), emotional distress and feelings of unfairness around father involvement are likely. The meaning of fatherhood is in flux and adapting to the changing needs of families.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Father Responsivity: Couple Processes and the Coconstruction of Fatherhood

Matta

Knudson‐Martin

2006

Family Process

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Forty in-depth interviews of heterosexual parents of children 5 five years of age and younger are analyzed using a qualitative grounded theory approach to understand how couples coproduce fatherhood within their day-to-day relationships and in social, cultural, and economic contexts. The analysis identifies the construct "responsivity" as a central process through which, to varying degrees, fathers are aware of the needs of their wives and children and able to take an active part in meeting them. Three groups of fathers are examined according to their level of responsivity: low, moderate, and high. Factors influencing degree of father responsivity include gender constructions, power and the wife's influence, attunement, work schedules, and emotional tradeoffs. Implications for practice are suggested.

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“…Research on American families indicates that families are crucial sites for gender performances (Blume & Blume, 2003;Erickson, 2005;Hochschild, 2003;Howard & Alamilla, 2001;Kroska, 2003;Risman, 2004) and that "family interactions often reveal implicit gender ideologies, scripts, or rituals that enable family members to construct shared understandings of the dominant gender discourse in society" (Blume & Blume, 2003, p. 786). Researchers have focused particularly on the meanings attached to, and the performance of, household labor as a means to produce and reproduce gender (Erickson, 2005;Kroska, 2003;Risman, 2004).…”

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The Family as a Site for Gendered Ethnic Identity Work Among Asian Indian Immigrants

Mehrotra

Calasanti

2010

Journal of Family Issues

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Research on immigrants often points to the family as a source of support and a location for oppression. Using in-depth interviews with 38 first-generation immigrant Indians, this study adds to this literature by exploring families as sites of identity work where first-generation immigrants manage their gendered ethnic identities. Relocation into a new culture makes ethnic identity salient for the migrants, and they perform identity work to maintain this identity. However, because these identities are simultaneously gendered, enacting these reinforces gender hierarchies within families. Even though migration alters family structures, and especially family roles and responsibilities, individuals retain altered aspects of their roles that reinforce gender and ethnic identity. This identity work thus reinforces the observation that immigrant families can be both a source of strength and oppression. It provides a source of support from the Indian immigrant community while it also reshapes the gender inequalities embedded in Indian family structures.

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Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

Cited by 29 publications

References 61 publications

Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth

Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth

Father Responsivity: Couple Processes and the Coconstruction of Fatherhood

The Family as a Site for Gendered Ethnic Identity Work Among Asian Indian Immigrants

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