Family Matters: Queering the Dominant Discourse of Family

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cityu.schoolDivision of Arts and Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorDion, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-02T20:23:59Z
dc.date.available2016-09-02T20:23:59Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe present ethnographic research project examines the ways queer families negotiate the dominant discourse of family when making decisions to raise children together. The language of family is gendered and reflects particular heterosexual, social relations. This paper explores the way a queer family navigates their understandings of family as it collides with and/or reflects the dominant discourse of family. As a background to this exploration, the intersections between four key major theoretical themes are highlighted: language, dominant discourse, queer theory, and family. These themes are applied to queer family experience of language and communication in order to explore the possible ways theory mirrors or collides with lived experience. A particular family unit was interviewed in this research project: two lesbian identified women in a long term relationship and two gay identified men in a long term relationship who chose each other to raise a child together.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/443
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.subjectqueer family experience
dc.subjectgender diversity in families
dc.subjectcommunication and gender diversity
dc.titleFamily Matters: Queering the Dominant Discourse of Family
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounseling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle (CityU)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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