E Peel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12344 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Peel |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Peel |
| ASSINATURA | PEEL E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0017-1024 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 378 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Feminism and Psychology
Love, loss and animals
Seeing Species in the Therapeutic Encounter
This reflexive commentary takes up the aim expressed in the 2010 Special Issue of Feminism & Psychology focusing on feminism, psychology and non-human animals to raise awareness of speciesism. I do this by adopting a feminist phronetic approach to analysing some of my more-than-human experiences in therapy interaction. Focusing on two moments of canine agency in multispecies therapeutic encounters, I show how multispeciesism or anthropocentrism c…
Beyond disenfranchized grief
Although there was a rapidly growing body of literature on human-animal relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention was given to accounts of animal death through and beyond COVID-19. This paper reports on two connected studies undertaken after the end of COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom, here focusing specifically on animal companion loss. From an online survey of 667 participants, 354 responded to an open-ended questi…
Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility
Media representations often imply that dementia is preventable through lifestyle choices, potentially blaming individuals for their condition. Crawford's ideology of healthism outlines this form of responsibilisation. Our thematic discourse analysis of focus group discussions demonstrates how different stakeholder groups interpret print media messages differently, with prevention messaging that promotes health behaviours among the general populat…
Reminiscence respecified
Although discussion of reminiscence is prevalent in dementia care research, few studies have examined what actually occurs in these interactions, and how they are structured. This study examined how reminiscence activities are structured and negotiated in a care home environment. Informal one-to-one reminiscence interactions between people living with dementia and professional carers were transcribed from a larger video dataset. We used Conversat…
An antidote to “armageddon and potential doom”
Though the anthropause of Covid-19 was peculiarly human-centric, it also brought into sharp relief our more-than-human world. Canine-human companionship can support human mental and physical wellbeing in ‘normal’ times, but this article explores the pandemic as a unique context for animal/human relations. I interrogate the pandemic component of the Dog Talking and Walking Project online survey ( n = 673), and subsequent interviews ( n = 41). A no…
Keeping the conversation going
This article explores how partners keep the conversation going with people living with dementia (PLWD) when speaking about shared memories. Remembering is important for PLWD and their families. Indeed, memory loss is often equated with identity loss. In conversation, references to shared past events (co-rememberings) can occasion interactional trouble if memories cannot be mutually recalled. This article analyses partners' interactional practices…
I Don’t Think That’s Something I’ve Ever Thought About Really Before”
This article examines three divergent constructions about the salience of legal gender in lay people’s everyday lives and readiness to decertify gender. In our interviews (and survey data), generally participants minimised the importance of legal gender. The central argument in this article is that feminist socio-legal scholars applying legal consciousness studies to legal reform topics should find scrutinizing the construction of interview talk …
Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model
The aim of this study is to critique and extend psychological approaches to resilience by examining retrospective accounts of LGBT people in England who had directly experienced or witnessed events that were salient as significantly negative or traumatic. Pre-screening telephone interviews identified ten individuals who matched inclusion criteria (mean age: 39 years; range 26–62 years) as part of a larger study. Interviews were semi-structured an…
An impossible dream’? Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK
The meaning and significance of gender is currently a focus of heated and, often, polarised debate in the UK and elsewhere. This article provides a new perspective in the gender debate through focused exploration of UK-based non-binary people's perceptions of legal gender status and reform. Binary gender/sex systems, such as the legal gender system in the UK, are underpinned by cisgenderism and are challenged by those whose identity falls outside…
Prejudice in “inclusive” spaces
Feminist reflexivity aims to (re)consider and challenge power differentials that exist in the research process. This activity is well represented in, for example, research into heterosexism. In this article we expand feminist reflexive practice in relation to cisgenderism through a (re)examination of interview transcripts conducted by a cisgender researcher on the topic of cisgenderism in media representations of trans and intersex sportspeople. …
(Anti-)feminism and cisgenderism in sports media
In this article we explore how anti-feminist and cisgenderist media logics are intertwined, particularly in the context of sports media. We examine these issues through focused analysis of a recent case reported in 2018–2019 predominantly in the British media. The sequential unfolding of media events surrounding Martina Navratilova’s intervention into the debate about trans inclusion in the female sporting category is explored with regard to key …
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
The second edition of this award-winning textbook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer psychology. Comprehensive in scope and international in outlook, it offers an integrated overview of key topical areas, from history and context, identities and fluidity, families and relationships, to health and wellbeing. The second edition has been extensively revised to add…
Polyphonic Legality
Building on Bakhtin’s work on discourse, this article uses the concept of polyphony to explore capacity law praxis. Drawing on everyday interaction about power of attorney, we demonstrate how legal, lay and medical understandings of capacity operate dialogically, with each voice offering distinct expressions of legality. Analysing lay and medical interactions about Lasting Power of Attorney – the legal authority to make decisions on behalf of a p…
Reshaping relational scripts? Marriage and civil partnership proposals among same-gender couples
The traditional marriage initiation script entails male partners ‘proposing’ to female partners. However, little is known about how same-gender couples initiate a marriage or civil partnership. Drawing on qualitative survey data from 82 people in a UK civil partnership or same-gender marriage we identify two marriage initiation themes which foreground the reshaping of script norms for marriage proposals. The first theme, ‘queer proposals’ entails…
LGBT people and suicidality in youth
A question of equality and choice’
Since the introduction of same-sex marriage, there have been two parallel institutions (marriage and civil partnership) for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in England, Wales and Scotland. The current study aimed to examine how those in a civil partnership or a same-sex marriage perceive civil partnership in the context of marriage equality. Eighty-two respondents completed a qualitative online survey, and their responses were anal…
Reflecting (on) Nature
This chapter explores the intersections and overlaps between accounts of humans raising non-human animals as kin, and accounts of heterosexual human couples planning for a first child. Our central claim in this chapter is that human relationships with other animals often serve primarily to tell us more about humans than they tell us anything about non-human animal ways of being. Importantly, our claim here is not to dismiss cross-species kinship …
Donor Connections
This chapter explores narratives of kinship about both organ donation and donor sperm conception. We frame the chapter through a focus on the instrumentalization of non-human animals with regard to breeding, and from there explore how such instrumentalization is both implied in, and resisted by, narratives of organ and sperm donation. By exploring how both organs and sperm are treated as synecdoches for whole people, we discuss the complex accoun…
Kinship in Institutional Contexts
This chapter focuses on acknowledging that how kinship is enacted is highly dependent on context. Kinship is shaped by, and through, institutional contexts both at a broad discursive level and also through moments of institutional interaction. In this sense kinship is dynamic and contingent on context. In this final substantive chapter we again consider incongruous contexts—a mother and baby unit, and institutional dementia care—in order to exami…
Motherhood and Recognition
This chapter considers how motherhood is normatively constructed as being alive for one’s children for as long as possible, and how being a mother involves conceiving, birthing and parenting children. We then trouble this understanding of motherhood by juxtaposing two under-recognized groups of mothers, namely transgender mothers and cisgender mothers with dementia. Through exploring these two categories of motherhood we interrogate where the tak…
Objects of Critique
This chapter outlines in detail three points of critique that we believe are central to critical kinship studies, namely kinship as a nodal point of power, kinship and the ‘natural order of things’, and lastly the valorization of genetic relatedness. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Tools of Critique
This chapter offers three tools of critique that we see as central to critical kinship studies. These are an understanding of kinship as a technology, a discursive account of subjectivity, and a focus on affective ambivalence. Having outlined our points of critique in Chapter 2 and tools for examining them, the subsequent analytic chapters explore in detail how the latter can help us understand a truly diverse range of practices of western human …
De-Heterosexualising Health
The living death of Alzheimer's' versus 'Take a walk to keep dementia at bay
Understanding dementia is a pressing social challenge. This article draws on the 'Dementia talking: care conversation and communication' project which aims to understand how talk about, and to people living with dementia is constructed. In this article I draw on the construction of dementia manifest in two data sets - a corpus of 350 recent UK national newspaper articles and qualitative data derived from in-depth interviews with informal carers. …
Mundane heterosexism
Contextualising accounts of illness
We undertook a secondary analysis of in-depth interviews with white (n = 32) and Pakistani and Indian (n = 32) respondents who had type 2 diabetes, which explored their perceptions and understandings of disease causation. We observed subtle, but important, differences in the ways in which these respondent groups attributed responsibility and blame for developing the disease. Whereas Pakistani and Indian respondents tended to externalise responsib…
Taking the Biscuit? A Discursive Approach to Managing Diet in Type 2 Diabetes
Adopting and maintaining a healthy diet is pivotal to diabetic regimens. Behavioural research has focused on strategies to modify/maintain healthy behaviours; thus 'compliance' and ' noncompliance' are operationalized by researchers. In contrast, discursive psychology focuses on the actions different accounts accomplish-in this case regarding diets. Using thematic discourse analysis, we examine dietary management talk in repeat-interviews with 40…
Online Interviewing in Psychology
The Internet is used across a range of disciplines to conduct qualitative research, and qualitative psychologists are increasingly turning to the Internet as a medium for conducting interviews. In this article, we explore the first author's experience of conducting synchronous online interviews using instant messaging or ‘chat’ software. We highlight the costs and benefits of conducting online interviews and reflect on the development of a rappor…
Chronic Illness in Non-heterosexual Contexts
In this article we contribute to the expansion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health psychology beyond the confines of sexual health by examining the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people living with non-HIV related chronic illness. Using a (predominantly) qualitative online survey, the perspectives of 190 LGB people with 52 different chronic illnesses from eight countries were collected. The five most commonly…
Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland
LGBT people and suicidality in youth
Seismic Cultural Change?”
Critical Kinship Studies
This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices. Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships between humans are understood. The categorisation of 'human' and 'kinship' is brought into question and this book examines who might be excluded through adherence to accepted categories and …
It’s a double-edged thing’
Since their introduction in 2005, thousands of same-sex couples in the UK have had a civil partnership. However, many other couples have chosen not to have one. This qualitative study explores why some same-sex couples are choosing not to have a civil partnership. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 people (five couples and two individuals) who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and analysed using discourse analysis. Part…
Sex and Diabetes
Around 50 per cent of men with diabetes experience erectile dysfunction. Much of the literature focuses on quality of life measures with heterosexual men in monogamous relationships. This study explores gay and bisexual men's experiences of sex and diabetes. Thirteen interviews were analysed and three themes identified: erectile problems; other 'physical' problems; and disclosing diabetes to sexual partners. Findings highlight a range of sexual p…
Shifting accountability
Divorcing Romance, Rights and Radicalism
In this article about 'For Better or Worse? Lesbian and Gay Marriage' (Feminism & Psychology, 141) we focus on the contributions to the special feature, the commentaries provided by Ellen Lewin (2004), Sheila Jeffreys (2004) and Sue Wise and Liz Stanley (2004), and on wider debates about lesbian and gay marriage and partnership recognition. We agree that 'there is a lot of confusion/assumptions made about what it (i.e. marriage) is' (Wise and Sta…
Lesbian feminisms
Lesbian feminism was a dominant ideology of politicized (white, middle class, North American, Western European, and Australasian) lesbians during the 1970s and 1980s. Prior to the rise of lesbian feminism, lesbianism was commonly theorized and talked about as illness and deviance, and subsequently as a personal sexual preference. Lesbian feminism offered women a new political language for thinking about sexuality. According to a key lesbian femin…
The de-gaying and re-gaying of Aids
From the first recognition of AIDS as a disease, it was publicly conceptualized as a ‘gay plague’. In response, health education and diversity training sought to counter this association claiming that AIDS is an ‘equal opportunity’ virus - that it can affect anyone. In this article, we analyse talk about HIV/AIDS within a data corpus of 13 tape-recorded lesbian and gay awareness training sessions. Counter to the way in which interactions are desc…
IV. Civil Partnerships
The practicalities of introducing partnership registration for gay couples, with rights and responsibilities attached, are complex. But the case for doing it is clear and, I believe, strong. I believe there will be a day when gay couples dont have to struggle to have their partnerships, their families, recognized. (Barbara Roche, UK Labour MP1)
I Don’t Think That’s Something I’ve Ever Thought About Really Before”
This article examines three divergent constructions about the salience of legal gender in lay people’s everyday lives and readiness to decertify gender. In our interviews (and survey data), generally participants minimised the importance of legal gender. The central argument in this article is that feminist socio-legal scholars applying legal consciousness studies to legal reform topics should find scrutinizing the construction of interview talk …
I. Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
Book review essay
Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model
The aim of this study is to critique and extend psychological approaches to resilience by examining retrospective accounts of LGBT people in England who had directly experienced or witnessed events that were salient as significantly negative or traumatic. Pre-screening telephone interviews identified ten individuals who matched inclusion criteria (mean age: 39 years; range 26–62 years) as part of a larger study. Interviews were semi-structured an…
An impossible dream’? Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK
The meaning and significance of gender is currently a focus of heated and, often, polarised debate in the UK and elsewhere. This article provides a new perspective in the gender debate through focused exploration of UK-based non-binary people's perceptions of legal gender status and reform. Binary gender/sex systems, such as the legal gender system in the UK, are underpinned by cisgenderism and are challenged by those whose identity falls outside…
(Anti-)feminism and cisgenderism in sports media
In this article we explore how anti-feminist and cisgenderist media logics are intertwined, particularly in the context of sports media. We examine these issues through focused analysis of a recent case reported in 2018–2019 predominantly in the British media. The sequential unfolding of media events surrounding Martina Navratilova’s intervention into the debate about trans inclusion in the female sporting category is explored with regard to key …
A question of equality and choice’
Since the introduction of same-sex marriage, there have been two parallel institutions (marriage and civil partnership) for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in England, Wales and Scotland. The current study aimed to examine how those in a civil partnership or a same-sex marriage perceive civil partnership in the context of marriage equality. Eighty-two respondents completed a qualitative online survey, and their responses were anal…
VIII. A right to ‘dying well’ with dementia? Capacity, ‘choice’ and relationality
This is the accepted version of a paper that has been subsequently published in the journal, Feminism and Psychology. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353514562811
I. Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
Book review essay
Mundane heterosexism
The Social Construction of Lesbianism
The commentators in this reappraisal describe The Social Construction of Lesbianism (1987) as ‘classic’ (Coyle1), ‘exciting’ (Tiefer), ‘important’, (MacBride-Stewart), ‘fascinating’ (Snelling), a ‘remarkable achievement’ (Snelling), and an ‘engagingly written, political tour de force’ (Coyle). Like some of the commentators (Coyle, Snelling), one of us (VC) owns a well-read copy of The Social Construction of Lesbianism, highlighted in all the colo…
Divorcing Romance, Rights and Radicalism
In this article about 'For Better or Worse? Lesbian and Gay Marriage' (Feminism & Psychology, 141) we focus on the contributions to the special feature, the commentaries provided by Ellen Lewin (2004), Sheila Jeffreys (2004) and Sue Wise and Liz Stanley (2004), and on wider debates about lesbian and gay marriage and partnership recognition. We agree that 'there is a lot of confusion/assumptions made about what it (i.e. marriage) is' (Wise and Sta…
IV. Civil Partnerships
IV. Civil Partnerships
The practicalities of introducing partnership registration for gay couples, with rights and responsibilities attached, are complex. But the case for doing it is clear and, I believe, strong. I believe there will be a day when gay couples dont have to struggle to have their partnerships, their families, recognized. (Barbara Roche, UK Labour MP1)
The de-gaying and re-gaying of Aids
From the first recognition of AIDS as a disease, it was publicly conceptualized as a ‘gay plague’. In response, health education and diversity training sought to counter this association claiming that AIDS is an ‘equal opportunity’ virus - that it can affect anyone. In this article, we analyse talk about HIV/AIDS within a data corpus of 13 tape-recorded lesbian and gay awareness training sessions. Counter to the way in which interactions are desc…
Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland
Taking the Biscuit? A Discursive Approach to Managing Diet in Type 2 Diabetes
Adopting and maintaining a healthy diet is pivotal to diabetic regimens. Behavioural research has focused on strategies to modify/maintain healthy behaviours; thus 'compliance' and ' noncompliance' are operationalized by researchers. In contrast, discursive psychology focuses on the actions different accounts accomplish-in this case regarding diets. Using thematic discourse analysis, we examine dietary management talk in repeat-interviews with 40…
“It’s No Skin off My Nose”
In this article, the authors analyze participants’ accounts of why they took part in a repeat-interview study exploring newly diagnosed patients’ perceptions of diabetes service provision in Lothian, Scotland. The study involved three semistructured in-depth interviews with each patient (N = 40) , which spanned a year. The authors provide a thematic discursive analysis of responses to the question, Can I ask you what made you decide to part in th…
Introduction to LGB perspectives in psychological and psychotherapeutic theory, research and practice in the UK
VI. Surveying Sexualities
In this article we describe and evaluate the process of conducting online survey research about the legal recognition of same-sex relationships (key findings from which we have reported elsewhere, see Harding and Peel, 2006). Our aim in so doing is to contribute to the growing generic literature on internet-based research methods (Nosek et al., 2002; Rhodes et al., 2003; Stern, 2003; Strickland et al., 2003; Thomas et al., 2000) to the research m…
Contextualising accounts of illness
We undertook a secondary analysis of in-depth interviews with white (n = 32) and Pakistani and Indian (n = 32) respondents who had type 2 diabetes, which explored their perceptions and understandings of disease causation. We observed subtle, but important, differences in the ways in which these respondent groups attributed responsibility and blame for developing the disease. Whereas Pakistani and Indian respondents tended to externalise responsib…
Qualitative Psychology at M Level
There are now more postgraduate programmes that include qualitative methods in psychology than ever before. This poses problems for teaching qualitative methods at M level because we still lack consistency in what qualitative methods are taught at the undergraduate level. Although the British Psychological Society requires accredited undergraduate programmes to include qualitative methods, we hear very different stories from colleagues across the…
Intergroup relations in action
This paper focuses on the questions which heterosexual trainees ask about lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) experience within diversity training about LGB issues. Drawing on a data corpus of 162 questions asked by trainees in 13 tape‐recorded training sessions, questions were coded into six categories: (1) general ‘understanding’ questions; (2) questions about the trainer's life, experience and practices; (3) professional practice questions; (4) qu…
Shifting accountability
Ethical Issues in Neuroimaging Health Research
Neuroimaging is increasingly used to understand conditions like stroke and epilepsy. However, there is growing recognition that neuroimaging can raise ethical issues. We used interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyse interview data pre-and post-scan to explore these ethical issues. Findings show participants can become anxious prior to scanning and the protocol for managing incidental findings is unclear. Participants lacked a frame of …
Patients’ perceptions and experiences of transitions in diabetes care
Objective To examine patients’ perceptions and experiences over time of the devolvement of diabetes care/reviews from secondary to primary health‐care settings. Design Repeat in‐depth interviews with 20 patients over 4 years. Participants and setting Twenty type 2 diabetes patients recruited from primary‐ and secondary‐care settings across Lothian, Scotland. Results Patients’ views about their current diabetes care were informed by their previous…
Chronic Illness in Non-heterosexual Contexts
In this article we contribute to the expansion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health psychology beyond the confines of sexual health by examining the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people living with non-HIV related chronic illness. Using a (predominantly) qualitative online survey, the perspectives of 190 LGB people with 52 different chronic illnesses from eight countries were collected. The five most commonly…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Psychology
This exciting and engaging textbook introduces students to the psychology of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and experiences. It covers a broad range of topics including diversity, prejudice, health, relationships, parenting and lifespan experiences from youth to old age. The book includes 'key researcher' boxes, which outline the contributions of significant individuals and their motivations for conducting their research in their o…
Chipping Away at the Taken-For-Granted
Seismic Cultural Change?”
Online Interviewing in Psychology
The Internet is used across a range of disciplines to conduct qualitative research, and qualitative psychologists are increasingly turning to the Internet as a medium for conducting interviews. In this article, we explore the first author's experience of conducting synchronous online interviews using instant messaging or ‘chat’ software. We highlight the costs and benefits of conducting online interviews and reflect on the development of a rappor…
It’s a double-edged thing’
Since their introduction in 2005, thousands of same-sex couples in the UK have had a civil partnership. However, many other couples have chosen not to have one. This qualitative study explores why some same-sex couples are choosing not to have a civil partnership. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 people (five couples and two individuals) who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and analysed using discourse analysis. Part…
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