Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

By J. Weeks, B. Heaphy, C. Donovan. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Reproductive Medicine

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Limitations of focussing on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic ‘bullying’ to understand and address LGBT young people's experiences within and beyond school (2015, background): “…a certain level of (unwarranted) fear can be linked to broader evidence on selfcensorship and negative expectations among LGBT people (Formby 2012; Weeks, Heaphy, and Donovan 2001), the specific impact of young people unnecessarily preparing themselves for bullying warrants further investigation.”
Adaptation and Transformation: The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood for Gay Male Couples (2008, background): “In addition, stereotypes of gay men are used to justify social policies that would remove children from their proximity to and custody with gay male parents ( Weeks, Heaphy, & Donovan, 2001 ).”
Thinking beyond Homonormativity: Performative Explorations of Diverse Gay Economies (2009, background): “A growing number of scholars (Roseneil, 2007; Weeks, 2007; Weeks et al, 2001) have described patterns of domesticity, friendship, and intimacy that were once predominantly found amongst lesbians and gay men, but which are increasingly being replicated amongst broader layers of society as patterns…”
Counseling Psychology Research on Sexual (Orientation) Minority Issues: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges and Opportunities (2009, background): “One example of normative creativity is the construction of families of choice composed of partner and friend networks in addition to, or instead of, biological kin ( Weeks, Heaphy, & Donovan, 2001 ).”
Decision-making in planned lesbian parenting: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2002, background): “In explaining this difference, participants represented the biological bond between the birth mother and the child as being inevitably stronger and more fundamental than the social bond between the non-biological parent and the child (see also Hand, 1991; Weeks, Heaphy, & Donovan, 2001 ).”
Minority stress, experience of parenthood and child adjustment in lesbian families (2004, background): “…studies, it is known that the main concerns of lesbian women who are thinking about having children are the possible negative implications of raising a child in a non-traditional family in a heterosexist and homophobic society (Gartrell et al., 1996; Leiblum et al., 1995; Weeks et al., 2001).”
The Emotionalization of Reflexivity (2010, background): “As intimate lives diversify relations even to those closest cannot be taken for granted and must be made (Budgeon and Roseneil, 2004; Roseneil, 2005; Weeks et al., 2001).”
Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity (2013, background): “…2013 Vol. 32, No. 1, 37–53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2012.735859 ∗Email: ddempsey@swin.edu.au # 2013 Taylor & Francis trend follows on from developments in the gay male communities in the UK and US (see Weeks et al. 2001, Stacey 2004, Berkowitz and Marsiglio 2007, Bergman et al. 2010).”