Between Mainstream and Marginality
The Case of Men and Women of Mixed-Orientation Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3621671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adir Adler (University of Haifa, corresponding author), Adital Ben‐ari (University of Haifa), Adital Ben-Ari (University of Haifa) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1813-1832 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2020.1712139 |
| PMID | 31942832 |
| OpenAlex | W3000630712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
The literature regarding mixed-orientation relationships (MORs) focuses on individual and relationship aspects. Our study, informed by the social construction of reality theory, illuminates social aspects by examining social attitudes toward MORs as they are experienced and perceived by individuals of MOR. Within the scope of this study, we focused on self-identified non-straight men (gays, bisexuals, or men who have sex with men) who are in a relationship with self-identified straight women. Based on the phenomenological paradigm, we conducted 38 interviews with men and eight with women currently in MOR. The findings show that individuals of MOR primarily encounter negative attitudes from people in society regarding themselves and the nature of their relationship. Participants perceived that others viewed their relationships in terms of conflict, impossibility, or transitional stage. Social attitudes individuals of MOR encounter affect the degree of closeness of these couples to others in their social environment, resulting in constant tension between the participants' desire to be open to and close to others and the need to conceal and keep a distance. We argue that the dialectical tensions between disclosure-concealment and autonomy-closeness are related to the marginalization of these couples as a social category
Affect (linguistics · Autonomy · Closeness · Dialectic · Epistemology · Impossibility · Mainstream · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Phenomenological research methods
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Narrative, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion
Writing Our Own Script
Outside Belonging
Queer People Who Enter ‘Straight’ Marriages
Bias Toward Bisexual Women and Men in a Marriage-Matching Task
How Lesbian and Heterosexual Parents Convey Attitudes about Gender to their Children
Children with lesbian parents
Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian-parent families
Heterosexually married homosexual men
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Naturalistic inquiry
The social construction of reality
Two Decades of Developments in Qualitative Inquiry
Approaches to and Outcomes of Dyadic Interview Analysis
Gay Men from Heterosexual Marriages
The Toronto Lesbian Family Study
Bisexual and Gay Men in Heterosexual Marriage
How We Stay Together Without Going Crazy
Bisexual Men in Marriage
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |