Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (30)

'Marriage' Special Issues (2003)
Journal Article

This is the first of two special issues of Feminism & Psychology focusing on marriage. Significant portions of the special issues are two special features (edited by Sara-Jane Finlay and Victoria Clarke) that consider the personal and political exper... Read More about 'Marriage' Special Issues.

Sameness and Difference in Research on Lesbian Parenting (2002)
Journal Article

Most psychological, social science and feminist work on lesbian parenting searches for similarities and differences between lesbian and heterosexual parents. Using a feminist constructionist approach, I identify four dimensions of difference that inf... Read More about Sameness and Difference in Research on Lesbian Parenting.

Resistance and normalisation in the construction of lesbian and gay families: A discursive analysis (2002)
Book Chapter

Victoria Clarke in conversation with June Hopkins (2002)
Journal Article

What about the children? Arguments against lesbian and gay parenting (2001)
Journal Article

In this article, I explore arguments commonly used to support the claim that lesbians and gay men should not be parents. Thematic analysis of recent media representations of lesbian and gay parenting and six focus groups with university students high... Read More about What about the children? Arguments against lesbian and gay parenting.

Lesbian and gay parents: Resistance and normalisation (2001)
Journal Article

The psychology and politics of lesbian and gay parenting: Having our cake and eating it? (2001)
Journal Article

Lesbian Mothers: Sameness and Difference (2000)
Journal Article

Psychologists and feminists have been researching and debating lesbian parenting for more than 25 years. One of the key concerns addressed by the literature on lesbian
mothers is whether they and their children are the same as, or different from, he... Read More about Lesbian Mothers: Sameness and Difference.

‘Stereotype, Attack and Stigmatize those Who Disagree’: Employing Scientific Rhetoric in Debates about Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2000)
Journal Article

In this paper, I explore the controversy surrounding lesbian and gay parenting within psychology, focusing on the rhetoric with which ‘authoritative’ accounts of lesbian and gay parenting are produced. Both ‘advocates’ and ‘enemies’ of lesbian and ga... Read More about ‘Stereotype, Attack and Stigmatize those Who Disagree’: Employing Scientific Rhetoric in Debates about Lesbian and Gay Parenting.

'God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve' (1999)
Journal Article