Focus on ‘the family’? How South African family policy fails queer families
- Macleod, Catriona I, Morison, Tracy, Lynch, Ingrid
- Authors: Macleod, Catriona I , Morison, Tracy , Lynch, Ingrid
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434398 , vital:73054 , ISBN 9780367777401 , https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Kinship-South-African-Perspectives-on-the-Sexual-politics-of-Family-making-and-Belonging/Morison-Lynch-Reddy/p/book/9780367777401
- Description: The most policy document is the White Paper on Families, which aims to facilitate the mainstreaming of a family perspective into all government policy-making from the national to the municipal level and across multiple departments. The irony is that less than a third of South African families actually conform to the two cisgender heterosexual biological parent model that is favoured in family policy. South African research has shown that children of lesbian parents learn open-mindedness and to be comfortable with the family in which they live, and that men in same-sex relationships challenge gendered divisions of household tasks. Promoting the two-biological-parent family as the preferred family structure creates an impossible ideal for the majority of South Africans to live up to. Because such a family structure is strongly connected to class, it is out of reach for the majority of citizens, let alone those who live in queer relationships.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Macleod, Catriona I , Morison, Tracy , Lynch, Ingrid
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434398 , vital:73054 , ISBN 9780367777401 , https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Kinship-South-African-Perspectives-on-the-Sexual-politics-of-Family-making-and-Belonging/Morison-Lynch-Reddy/p/book/9780367777401
- Description: The most policy document is the White Paper on Families, which aims to facilitate the mainstreaming of a family perspective into all government policy-making from the national to the municipal level and across multiple departments. The irony is that less than a third of South African families actually conform to the two cisgender heterosexual biological parent model that is favoured in family policy. South African research has shown that children of lesbian parents learn open-mindedness and to be comfortable with the family in which they live, and that men in same-sex relationships challenge gendered divisions of household tasks. Promoting the two-biological-parent family as the preferred family structure creates an impossible ideal for the majority of South Africans to live up to. Because such a family structure is strongly connected to class, it is out of reach for the majority of citizens, let alone those who live in queer relationships.
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- Date Issued: 2019
From deviant choice to feminist issue: An historical analysis of scholarship on voluntary childlessness (1920–2013)
- Lynch, Ingrid, Morison, Tracy, Macleod, Catriona I, Mijas, Magdalena, du Toit, Ryan, Shivakumar, Seemanthini T
- Authors: Lynch, Ingrid , Morison, Tracy , Macleod, Catriona I , Mijas, Magdalena , du Toit, Ryan , Shivakumar, Seemanthini T
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434319 , vital:73048 , ISBN 978-1-78754-361-4 , https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181002/full/html
- Description: Existing reviews of research on voluntary childlessness generally take the form of narrative summaries, focusing on main topics investigated over time. In this chapter, the authors extend previous literature reviews to conduct a systematic review and content analysis of socio-historical and geopolitical aspects of knowledge production about voluntary childlessness. The dataset comprised 195 peer-reviewed articles that were coded and analysed to explore, inter alia: the main topic under investigation; country location of authors; sample characteristics; theoretical framework and methodology. The findings are discussed in relation to the socio-historical contexts of knowledge production, drawing on theoretical insights concerned with the politics of location, representation and research practice. The shifts in the topics of research from the 1970s, when substantial research first emerged, uphold the view of voluntary childlessness as non-normative. With some regional variation, knowledge is dominated by quantitative, hard science methodologies and mostly generated about privileged, married women living in the global North. The implications of this for future research concerned with reproductive freedom are outlined.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Lynch, Ingrid , Morison, Tracy , Macleod, Catriona I , Mijas, Magdalena , du Toit, Ryan , Shivakumar, Seemanthini T
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434319 , vital:73048 , ISBN 978-1-78754-361-4 , https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181002/full/html
- Description: Existing reviews of research on voluntary childlessness generally take the form of narrative summaries, focusing on main topics investigated over time. In this chapter, the authors extend previous literature reviews to conduct a systematic review and content analysis of socio-historical and geopolitical aspects of knowledge production about voluntary childlessness. The dataset comprised 195 peer-reviewed articles that were coded and analysed to explore, inter alia: the main topic under investigation; country location of authors; sample characteristics; theoretical framework and methodology. The findings are discussed in relation to the socio-historical contexts of knowledge production, drawing on theoretical insights concerned with the politics of location, representation and research practice. The shifts in the topics of research from the 1970s, when substantial research first emerged, uphold the view of voluntary childlessness as non-normative. With some regional variation, knowledge is dominated by quantitative, hard science methodologies and mostly generated about privileged, married women living in the global North. The implications of this for future research concerned with reproductive freedom are outlined.
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- Date Issued: 2018
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