Gender Socialization Practices Among Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual Mothers: A Longitudinal Qualitative Examination |
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| Authors: | Corey E Flanders Melissa Marie Legge Iradele Plante Abbie E Goldberg Lori E Ross |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St., South Hadley, MA;2. Faculty of Social Work, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;3. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States |
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| Abstract: | Though social scientists have researched sexual-minority parenting practices regarding the gender socialization of children, to date this research has focused exclusively on sexual-minority parents in same-gender relationships, and almost exclusively on the experiences of gay and lesbian parents. This article addresses the gender socialization parenting practices of 25 nonmonosexual sexual-minority women who are in different-gender relationships through analysis of qualitative in-depth interviews that took place over the course of 1 year. Our findings indicate that the experiences of these participants differ from both those reported in previous literature on sexual-minority parents in same-gender relationships, as well as heterosexual parents in different-gender relationships. Specifically, participants do not report sexual identity stigma as restricting the degree of cross-gender socialization in which they engage, nor do they report a gender normative influence from their male partners. Findings are discussed in the context of a socioecological framework. |
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