What Makes a Queer Family Queer? A Response to Cristyn Davies and Kerry H. Robinson

Autor/in	Silin, Jonathan
Titel	What Makes a Queer Family Queer? A Response to Cristyn Davies and Kerry H. Robinson
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 14 (2013) 1, S.54-59 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.2304/ciec.2014.14.1.54
Schlagwörter	Family (Sociological Unit); Homosexuality; Sexual Identity; Sex Role; Sexual Orientation; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Gender Issues; Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familie; Homosexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Geschlechterrolle; Sexuelle Orientierung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Geschlechterfrage; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	In this essay I respond to Cristyn Davies and Kerry Robinson's research on queer families by remarking on the distance GLBTQI people have travelled in the last half century. I raise critical questions about the potential gains and possible losses that may result from bringing heretofore subjugated knowledges into the school curriculum. Drawing on my own biography, I also interrogate the radical edge that our outsider status once allowed us, the rapid normalization of gay life, and the foreclosure of options which that normalization has brought. Finally, I pose a distinction between non-traditional and queer families as a prompt to further investigation of how vectors of identity such as class, race, ethnicity, and religion intersect with the choices people make about constructing families and raising children. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10