Maps of Family Relationships Drawn by Women Engaged in Bisexual Motherhood
Defining Family Membership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2347844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Tasker (0000-0003-4205-5408, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK, corresponding author), Marie Delvoye (University of Liège, Liège, Belgium) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 18 |
| Pages | 4248-4274 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192513x18810958 |
| OpenAlex | W2883735687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
Family building by bisexual mothers is a neglected area of research, yet this is an important aspect of life course development that may reciprocally influence the sexual identity development of bisexual women and family processes around parenting. Family map drawings (genograms) and interview data were collected from eight cisgender women from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland who spoke about their bisexual parenting experience and family relationships. Thematic narrative analysis indicates that participants depict both heteronormative (traditional) extended kinship networks (radiating out from a family core centering on them and their children) and family of choice network features. Nonetheless certain features appear to be more indirectly presented on some participants' family maps: namely, complex or marginalized (erased) relationships with additional partners that may sustain sexual identity but contradict both heteronormative and homonormative presentations of family life. Our discussion considers the difficult issues bisexual mothers face in maintaining both their family relationships and a marginalized sexual identity
Developmental psychology · Family relationship · Sociology · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
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Receiving, or ‘Adopting’, Donated Embryos to Have Children
Bi-Invisibility in Academia; the Intentional and Accidental Erasure of Bi + Parents in Research and Recommendations for Future Research
Methodological and ethical challenges of the ‘family map’ technique in researching LGBTQ+ families
Bisexual Aunts, Gay Cousins
Defining and measuring family
Family Theories
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Psychology
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Same Sex Intimacies
Alternative Families, Alternative Lives
Genograms Redrawn
Narrating Self-Identity in Bisexual Motherhood
Gay Men Who Become Fathers via Surrogacy
Children's Views of Family Relationships in Lesbian-Led Families
Bisexuality and Family
Adaptation and Transformation
Bisexual Parents and Family Diversity
The Right to a Privilege? Homonormativity and the Recognition of Same-Sex Couples in Europe
II. Bisexuality
Bisexual women’s understandings of social marginalisation
Gender Roles and the Family Life Cycle
Moving out of the Shadows
Daughters and their mothers
The Use of a Socially Constructed Genogram in Clinical Practice
Assessment and Social Construction
Lesbian mothers with planned families
Critical Kinship Studies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |