Whose Daughter Are You
Exploring Identity Issues of Lesbians Who Are Adopted
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12399049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mi Ok Bruining (Mount Sinai Beth Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 43-60 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-8720 • E-ISSN: 1540-4056 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j041v03n02_04 |
| OpenAlex | W2314202920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Lesbian women who are adopted confront a unique set of challenges including coming out, searching or not searching for birth families, and managing relationships with adoptive and birth families (if they are found). This article explores how adopted lesbians negotiate these issues, and how such issues impact the dual yet separate elements which contribute to identity: being adopted and being lesbian. The findings of a study of self-identified lesbians who are adopted are discussed. One of the central findings is that the women interviewed for this study were more comfortable with their lesbian identity than with their adoptive identity
Art · Daughter · Face (sociological concept · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · Lesbian · Negotiation · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Computer Science · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |