A Tale of Two Mommies
(Re)Storying Family of Origin Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12755699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Suter (0000-0003-3946-4198, University of Denver, corresponding author), Jody Koenig Kellas (0000-0003-4591-5354, University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Stephanie K Webb (University of Denver), Jordan Allen (0000-0002-3693-0838, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 303-317 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-7431 • E-ISSN: 1532-7698 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15267431.2016.1184150 |
| OpenAlex | W2395078560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 39 |
This study examined co-mother family of origin stories. Origin stories, representing the formation of a family, are culturally understood within a master narrative of heterosexual love and biological childbearing. Beginnings of co-mother families rupture this dominant, gendered, boy-meets-girl script. Investigating whether or not co-mother stories reify the normative master narrative or if instead their narrations resist and/or possibly transform conventional understandings, analysis identified three co-mother origin story themes: Becoming a Family (1) as Normal, (2) as Negotiation, and (3) as Normalization. Themes differ in terms of depiction of co-mother family formation as congruent with current norms, as something that needs to be made to seem normal (i.e., in need of normalization), or as something between normal and normalization—to be negotiated internally within the couple. Study results are discussed within a broader framework of family coming-together stories
Art · Depiction · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Girl · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Normalization (sociology · Normative · Sociology · Anthropology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Theory
Origin Stories in Donor‐Conception
Setting the Agenda
We’re Just Family, You Know?” Exploring the Discourses of Family in Gay Parents’ Relational Talk
Becoming a Transracial Family
Introduction to the Special Issue
The promise of a nonhuman turn for Cifc scholarship
Grandfamily Origin Narratives
Invited Essay
Queering the kinship story
Handbook of Personal Relationships
Remaking «Family» Communicatively
How a couple views their past predicts their future
Communicated Narrative Sense-Making
When Bad Things Turn Good and Good Things Turn Bad
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Gay and Lesbian Family Building
To Be a Parent
Understanding Communication Between Lesbian Parents and Their Children Regarding Outsider Discourse About Family Identity
Activist Parenting and GLBTQ Families
Conceptions of Self in Mother-Child Birth Stories
Discursive Struggles Animating Individuals’ Talk About Their Parents’ Coming Out as Lesbian or Gay
About as Solid as a Fish Net
Narrating Adoption
Telling the Story of Stepfamily Beginnings
The Dialogic Construction of “Adoption” in Online Foster Adoption Narratives
Family legacies
Accounting for Lesbian-Headed Families
Family Ties
Discursive Constructions of the Meaning of “Family” in Online Narratives of Foster Adoptive Parents
Motherhood as Contested Ideological Terrain
Restructuring the Stepfamily
Gay and Lesbian Adoptive and Foster Care Placements
Lesbian mothers with planned families
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Naturalistic inquiry
Mapping the Margins
He was Our Child from the Moment We Walked in that Room
Parental management of adoptive identities during challenging encounters
Mothers, Fathers, and 'Mathers
Negotiating Lesbian Family Identity via Symbols and Rituals
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |