April L Few‐demo
Biographic Data
| ID | 95516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | April L Few‐demo |
| GIVEN NAMES | April L |
| FAMILY NAME | Few‐demo |
| SIGNATURE | DEMO A L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3117-7282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Strategic performance of Black queer motherwork
It's Still All About Power: Critical Intersectional Family Science Today
A decade ago, April Few‐Demo argued intersectionality was the “new” critical approach to utilizing a critical lens within feminist family science. This special issue invited interdisciplinary scholars to consider how intersectionality has evolved and expanded, to examine tensions and challenges with applying an intersectional lens, and to address how intersectionality has been utilized in pedagogy, research, and praxis. Our contributors embraced …
After All This Time: Clarifying Misconceptions and Charting Clear Directions for the Next 25 Years of Johnson’s Typology
Grandparent couples’ experiences of family leisure
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methodologies: A Dynamic Approach
Transformative family scholarship: Introduction to the special issue
This introductory essay situates this special issue within the context of antiracism and social justice for family scholars. The editors underscore the political and social context that led the National Council on Family Relations' three flagship journals— Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR), Family Relations (FR), and Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) to collectively invite submissions for separate special issues on Transformative Family…
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings
Conversations related to racism, antiblackness, and oppression have expanded over the past years in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others. As family scholars, we recognize the impact of the legacy of violence against Black and Brown people and are at a point in history where the United States is struggling to address ramifications of unacknowledged race‐based traumas. Critical intersectional feminist praxis sugge…
Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review
This review of the gender, feminist, and intersectional literature on families from 2010 to 2019 examines the following three streams of research, theorizing, and praxis: (a) the framing of gender as systemic social stratification and inequalities, (b) the application of feminist perspectives and praxis to highlight and change power disparities in private and public spheres; and (c) the application of intersectionality perspectives to examine and…
A Content Analysis of the First Decade of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies
The emergence of several specialized journals that examine the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals, families, and communities, particularly the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, has profoundly shaped GLBT research. Engaging in taking stock activities helps to identify trends on which future research should focus to further develop the field. For example, scholars suggest critical analysis of journal publication…
Reenvisioning Family Theories: An Exercise in “Disciplined Imagination”
This commentary highlights how the scholars in the special issue titled “Revisioning Family Theories: Centering Race and Ethnicities” have provided thoughtful and constructive ways to transform family theories. I discuss how the integration of race and ethnicity makes us think of different propositions and ask different questions in the theory construction process
Introduction to the Special Issue
A Content Analysis of LGBT Research in Top Family Journals 2000-2015
The past decades have witnessed some of the most prolific changes in rights and experiences for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) individuals and their families. Research during this period also witnessed a significant increase in the study of these changes. The current content analysis systematically reviewed all LGBT-related articles published in top-ranked, general family science journals from 2000 to 2015 to gauge the state of this g…
E-Change: Designing a Transformative Assignment in an Online Human Sexuality Course
Online education has created a new pedagogical landscape in teaching courses discussing sensitive issues. Transformative pedagogy has been used to epistemologically challenge students culminating in epistemological growth. This article applies these transformative principles in an online human sexuality course using a Core Values Assignment (CVA) designed to encourage students’ critical reflection of their beliefs, values, and experiences. This a…
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men—Black Women's Studies
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT ‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the “facts” that LGBT ‐parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories. We attempt to move this conversation by presenting a model of curricular change for teaching family studies theories courses that shifts from LGBT ‐parent exclusion, …
African American Maternal Power and the Racial Socialization of Preschool Children
Gender, Racialized
Racialized gender is a sociological concept that refers to the critical analysis of the simultaneous interaction of race and gender processes on individuals, families, and communities. This concept recognizes that women and men do not negotiate race and gender similarly and that social environments impose or limit culturally appropriate cues, scripts, behaviors, and outcomes for individuals through hierarchical raced, gendered, and classed system…
Family Diversity
Families have always come in diverse structural forms, reflecting norms of social obligation, biological and emotional ties, cultural values, political movements, and economic conditions. A critical, postmodern approach defines family diversity as inclusive of all familial and kinship forms. Although first‐time married heterosexual couples with biologically related children are still prevalent, dramatic social and demographic changes have spawned…
Black Feminist Thought
Black feminist thought is a term used to describe a collection of ideas, writings, and art that articulates a standpoint of, for, and by African American women in the United States. Black feminist thought positions African American women as a group that is socially situated in a unique status due to simultaneous interlocking processes of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual orientation. This theoretical framework posits that the politics of…
Intersectionality as the “New” Critical Approach in Feminist Family Studies: Evolving Racial/Ethnic Feminisms and Critical Race Theories
This article presents one of the first comprehensive reviews of intersectionality literature for a family studies audience. The purpose of this article is manifold: (1) to review the interdisciplinary scholarship on intersectionality as a theoretical approach, paradigm, or method; (2) to review methodological considerations using intersectionality as a theoretical guide to conduct research; and (3) to examine how contemporary family scholars are …
It's All About Power: Integrating Feminist Family Studies and Family Communication
Feminist family studies bring a framework of power and intersectional analysis to unpack the issue of gender in families. Moving beyond the concept of gender as either benign or simply one of difference between men and women, a feminist perspective offers a way of conceptualizing the multiple contexts in which families are situated and where conflict and care inevitably comingle. A feminist lens has challenged family scholars to investigate and u…
Du Bois's Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory
Intersectionality as the “New” Critical Approach in Feminist Family Studies: Evolving Racial/Ethnic Feminisms and Critical Race Theories
This article presents one of the first comprehensive reviews of intersectionality literature for a family studies audience. The purpose of this article is manifold: (1) to review the interdisciplinary scholarship on intersectionality as a theoretical approach, paradigm, or method; (2) to review methodological considerations using intersectionality as a theoretical guide to conduct research; and (3) to examine how contemporary family scholars are …
African American Maternal Power and the Racial Socialization of Preschool Children
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT ‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the “facts” that LGBT ‐parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories. We attempt to move this conversation by presenting a model of curricular change for teaching family studies theories courses that shifts from LGBT ‐parent exclusion, …
It's All About Power: Integrating Feminist Family Studies and Family Communication
Feminist family studies bring a framework of power and intersectional analysis to unpack the issue of gender in families. Moving beyond the concept of gender as either benign or simply one of difference between men and women, a feminist perspective offers a way of conceptualizing the multiple contexts in which families are situated and where conflict and care inevitably comingle. A feminist lens has challenged family scholars to investigate and u…
A Content Analysis of LGBT Research in Top Family Journals 2000-2015
The past decades have witnessed some of the most prolific changes in rights and experiences for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) individuals and their families. Research during this period also witnessed a significant increase in the study of these changes. The current content analysis systematically reviewed all LGBT-related articles published in top-ranked, general family science journals from 2000 to 2015 to gauge the state of this g…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Du Bois's Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory
Du Bois's Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory
Intersectionality as the “New” Critical Approach in Feminist Family Studies: Evolving Racial/Ethnic Feminisms and Critical Race Theories
This article presents one of the first comprehensive reviews of intersectionality literature for a family studies audience. The purpose of this article is manifold: (1) to review the interdisciplinary scholarship on intersectionality as a theoretical approach, paradigm, or method; (2) to review methodological considerations using intersectionality as a theoretical guide to conduct research; and (3) to examine how contemporary family scholars are …
It's All About Power: Integrating Feminist Family Studies and Family Communication
Feminist family studies bring a framework of power and intersectional analysis to unpack the issue of gender in families. Moving beyond the concept of gender as either benign or simply one of difference between men and women, a feminist perspective offers a way of conceptualizing the multiple contexts in which families are situated and where conflict and care inevitably comingle. A feminist lens has challenged family scholars to investigate and u…
Gender, Racialized
Racialized gender is a sociological concept that refers to the critical analysis of the simultaneous interaction of race and gender processes on individuals, families, and communities. This concept recognizes that women and men do not negotiate race and gender similarly and that social environments impose or limit culturally appropriate cues, scripts, behaviors, and outcomes for individuals through hierarchical raced, gendered, and classed system…
Family Diversity
Families have always come in diverse structural forms, reflecting norms of social obligation, biological and emotional ties, cultural values, political movements, and economic conditions. A critical, postmodern approach defines family diversity as inclusive of all familial and kinship forms. Although first‐time married heterosexual couples with biologically related children are still prevalent, dramatic social and demographic changes have spawned…
Black Feminist Thought
Black feminist thought is a term used to describe a collection of ideas, writings, and art that articulates a standpoint of, for, and by African American women in the United States. Black feminist thought positions African American women as a group that is socially situated in a unique status due to simultaneous interlocking processes of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual orientation. This theoretical framework posits that the politics of…
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men—Black Women's Studies
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT ‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the “facts” that LGBT ‐parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories. We attempt to move this conversation by presenting a model of curricular change for teaching family studies theories courses that shifts from LGBT ‐parent exclusion, …
African American Maternal Power and the Racial Socialization of Preschool Children
E-Change: Designing a Transformative Assignment in an Online Human Sexuality Course
Online education has created a new pedagogical landscape in teaching courses discussing sensitive issues. Transformative pedagogy has been used to epistemologically challenge students culminating in epistemological growth. This article applies these transformative principles in an online human sexuality course using a Core Values Assignment (CVA) designed to encourage students’ critical reflection of their beliefs, values, and experiences. This a…
A Content Analysis of the First Decade of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies
The emergence of several specialized journals that examine the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals, families, and communities, particularly the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, has profoundly shaped GLBT research. Engaging in taking stock activities helps to identify trends on which future research should focus to further develop the field. For example, scholars suggest critical analysis of journal publication…
Reenvisioning Family Theories: An Exercise in “Disciplined Imagination”
This commentary highlights how the scholars in the special issue titled “Revisioning Family Theories: Centering Race and Ethnicities” have provided thoughtful and constructive ways to transform family theories. I discuss how the integration of race and ethnicity makes us think of different propositions and ask different questions in the theory construction process
Introduction to the Special Issue
A Content Analysis of LGBT Research in Top Family Journals 2000-2015
The past decades have witnessed some of the most prolific changes in rights and experiences for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) individuals and their families. Research during this period also witnessed a significant increase in the study of these changes. The current content analysis systematically reviewed all LGBT-related articles published in top-ranked, general family science journals from 2000 to 2015 to gauge the state of this g…
Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review
This review of the gender, feminist, and intersectional literature on families from 2010 to 2019 examines the following three streams of research, theorizing, and praxis: (a) the framing of gender as systemic social stratification and inequalities, (b) the application of feminist perspectives and praxis to highlight and change power disparities in private and public spheres; and (c) the application of intersectionality perspectives to examine and…
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methodologies: A Dynamic Approach
Transformative family scholarship: Introduction to the special issue
This introductory essay situates this special issue within the context of antiracism and social justice for family scholars. The editors underscore the political and social context that led the National Council on Family Relations' three flagship journals— Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR), Family Relations (FR), and Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) to collectively invite submissions for separate special issues on Transformative Family…
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings
Conversations related to racism, antiblackness, and oppression have expanded over the past years in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others. As family scholars, we recognize the impact of the legacy of violence against Black and Brown people and are at a point in history where the United States is struggling to address ramifications of unacknowledged race‐based traumas. Critical intersectional feminist praxis sugge…
After All This Time: Clarifying Misconceptions and Charting Clear Directions for the Next 25 Years of Johnson’s Typology
Grandparent couples’ experiences of family leisure
Strategic performance of Black queer motherwork
It's Still All About Power: Critical Intersectional Family Science Today
A decade ago, April Few‐Demo argued intersectionality was the “new” critical approach to utilizing a critical lens within feminist family science. This special issue invited interdisciplinary scholars to consider how intersectionality has evolved and expanded, to examine tensions and challenges with applying an intersectional lens, and to address how intersectionality has been utilized in pedagogy, research, and praxis. Our contributors embraced …
Sociology (20 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Intersectionality (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)