Lesbians and Lesbian Families: Reflections on Theory and Practice
This cutting-edge collection of articles examines the sociocultural context of the lives of lesbians and lesbian families and reveals how new insights about lesbian identities, experiences, and relationships can be integrated into clinical theory and practice. A family therapist, Joan Laird presents several clinical approaches to working with lesbians as individuals and in couple and parenting relationships and to viewing sexual orientation in its full complexity of race, class, gender, and...
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Rich with clinical case studies and research on the everyday lives of lesbian families, this book includes chapters on the strategic language of self-disclosure, the family lives of lesbian mothers, and lesbian mothers who "come out" to their adolescent children. K. Jean Peterson A wonderful collection of articles that will help to story and restory the lives of lesbians and their families. . . . I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in increasing their understanding of lesbians and lesbian families.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Unconciousness-Raising: Hidden Dimensions of Heterosexism in Theory and Practice with Lesbians112Ascribing Master Status to Lesbians: Clinical Echoes of Identity Dilemmas273Gender and Sexuality in Lesbian Relationships: Feminist and Constructionist Perspectives474The Long Road to Equality: Lesbians and Social Policy915A Struggle for Language: Patterns of Self-Disclosure in Lesbian Couples1236Therapy with a Lesbian Couple: The Art of Balancing Lenses1437Object Relations Couples Therapy with Lesbians1798Lesbian Co-Parenting: On Being/Being with the Invisible (M)Other1979Lesbian Parents: Understanding Developmental Pathways21310The Family Lives of Lesbian Mothers24311Voices from the Heart: The Developmental Impact of a Mother's Lesbianism on Her Adolescent Children26112A Relational Perspective on Mutuality and Boundaries in Clinical Practice with Lesbians28313Resilience in Lesbians: An Exploratory Study30514The Application of Control Mastery Theory in Clinical Practice with Lesbians331Contributors345Author Index349Subject Index353
\ K. Jean PetersonA wonderful collection of articles that will help to story and restory the lives of lesbians and their families. . . . I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in increasing their understanding of lesbians and lesbian families.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsExpanded from a special issue of (June 1993), this text analyzes family permutations for what has been called the last invisible minority to be outed in national discourse. Offers 16 perspectives on: the social context of lesbians, lesbian couples, lesbian parenting, and special issues in theory and clinical practice (mutuality and boundaries, resilience, and application of control mastery theory). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
