All Outputs (6)

'Kids are just cruel anyway': Lesbian and gay parents' talk about homophobic bullying (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V., Kitzinger, C., & Potter, J. (2004). 'Kids are just cruel anyway': Lesbian and gay parents' talk about homophobic bullying. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(4), 531-550. https://doi.org/10.1348/0144666042565362

Psychologists recognize homophobic bullying as a serious problem for young lesbians and gay men; however, when it comes to children in lesbian and gay households the issue is not so clear cut Some psychologists sympathetic to lesbian and gay parentin... Read More about 'Kids are just cruel anyway': Lesbian and gay parents' talk about homophobic bullying.

Special Issue: The social construction of lesbianism: a reappraisal (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V., & Peel, E. (2004). Special Issue: The social construction of lesbianism: a reappraisal. Feminism and Psychology, 14(4),

The social construction of lesbianism: a reappraisal (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V., & Peel, E. (2004). The social construction of lesbianism: a reappraisal. Feminism and Psychology, 14(4), 485-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353504046861

'For Better or Worse?' Lesbian and Gay Marriage (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V., & Finlay, S. J. (2004). 'For Better or Worse?' Lesbian and Gay Marriage. Feminism and Psychology, 14(1), 17-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353504040297

This special feature takes forward the debate on lesbian and gay marriage by providing an explicitly feminist forum for the discussion and by grounding the contributions both in personal experience and in political reality. The contributions range f... Read More about 'For Better or Worse?' Lesbian and Gay Marriage.

Review of Stephanie Brill, "The queer parents’ primer: a lesbian and gay families’ guide to navigating the straight world" (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V. (2004). Review of Stephanie Brill, "The queer parents’ primer: a lesbian and gay families’ guide to navigating the straight world"

Lesbian and gay parents on talk shows: resistance or collusion in heterosexism? (2004)
Journal Article
Clarke, V., & Kitzinger, C. (2004). Lesbian and gay parents on talk shows: resistance or collusion in heterosexism?. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1(3), 195-217. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088704qp014oa

In this paper we explore popular television talk show debates about lesbian and gay parents. We show that the heterosexist framing of these debates compels lesbian and gay parents and their supporters to produce defensive and apologetic arguments tha... Read More about Lesbian and gay parents on talk shows: resistance or collusion in heterosexism?.