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Queer Science: History & Research Implications on
FamiliesSheila M. Addison, Ph.D., LMFT
Capella University
Kristen E. Benson, Ph.D., LMFT, CFLENorth Dakota State University
Annual Meeting of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, September 22-25, 2011, Fort Worth TX
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Introductions
• What are we doing here? • What are you hoping to get out of today?
• Information from today’s presentation will be posted at http://www.drsheilaaddison.com by the end of the conference
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Objectives
1. gain a historical perspective on clinical research about homosexuality, gender variance and families.
2. increase critical thinking skills about the design and application of research to the study of sexuality and gender.
3. explore the implications of LGBT research on clients and families.
4. generate ideas for how to develop research on LGBT individuals and families.
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“The Many Faces of Human Sexuality”
Source: World Science Festival
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Baby, were you born that way?
• What have you heard causes a gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientation?
• What have you heard causes transgender gender identity?
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Nature or nurture?
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History of Queer Science
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History of Queer ScienceSource:SmallPeculiar.com
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History of Queer Science
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History of Queer Science
Heath (1972) “Pleasure and brain activity in man: Deep and surface electroencephelographs during orgasm.”
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History of Queer Science
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History of Queer Science
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From New York Magazine:“The Science of Gaydar”
• http://nymag.com/news/features/33520/index2.html
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Simon LeVay - Gay Brains
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History of Queer Science
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History of Queer Science
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History of Queer Science
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Source: World Science Festival
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History of Queer Science• “This is why it has always been dangerous
to rest the claim for LGBT equality on the argument that homosexuality is genetic or biological. It may well be, but what if it were proven not to be so? Would that now mean that it would be ethical to discriminate against LGBT folks, simply because it wasn’t something encoded in their biology, and perhaps was something over which they had more “control?”
Tim Wise
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History of Queer Science
Source: “Diagnosing Difference”
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Gender Identity & DSM-V
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Gender Identity & DSM-V
Source: “Diagnosing Difference”
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Ideology: Biology or Culture?
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Distorting Research
Htttp://www.RespectMyResearch.org
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“Research” that distorts
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AAMFT speaks
From time to time AAMFT receives questions about a practice known as reparative or conversion therapy, which is aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation. As stated in previous AAMFT policy, the association does not consider homosexuality a disorder that requires treatment, and as such, we see no basis for such therapy. AAMFT expects its members to practice based on the best research and clinical evidence available.
- Board of Directors, March 2009
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Queering the field
Addison - unpublished dissertation (2007) - Delphi study of LGBT and QT informed practitioners
• “How have these knowledges informed your teaching, research, and practice?”
• “What would the field be like if it were similarly informed?”
• “What would the field gain or lose?”
• “What stands in the way of or facilitates such change?”
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Queering the field
Trans people and their partners’ perceptions of CFTS: They think they could be helpful, but they just don’t “get it.”
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Research can change lives
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Research can change lives
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What does it all mean for families?
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What does it all mean for families?
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Where could we go from here?
“What is the problem, and for whom? - Butler & Byrne, 2008
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Where could we go from here?
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Reading research queerlyQueer theory: Foucault, Butler, Halberstam, etc.
Recommended: “Queer Theory, Gender Theory” - Riki Wilchins
“Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence” - David Halperin
• Questioning binararies
• Interrogating assumptions (“truth statements”)
• Exploding categories (making them “slippery”)
• Identify, confront, and embrace the anxiety this creates
“At the margins, science no longer asks, but tells.” - Wilchins
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Reading research queerly
What questions can we ask in order to “queer” research that we encounter?
How will a “queered” perspective inform our research?
How will this perspective inform our clinical work with couples and families?
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Questions?