Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (180)

'Kids are just cruel anyway': Lesbian and gay parents' talk about homophobic bullying (2004)
Journal Article

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

The social construction of lesbianism: a reappraisal (2004)
Journal Article

'For Better or Worse?' Lesbian and Gay Marriage (2004)
Journal Article

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

Lesbian and gay parents on talk shows: resistance or collusion in heterosexism? (2004)
Journal Article

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?.

Lesbian and gay marriage: Transformation or normalisation? (2003)
Journal Article

Although there are still a number of vocal anti-marriage critics (e.g. Robson, 1998; Warner, 1999), most lesbians and gay men writing about marriage support the extension
of marriage rights. It is hardly surprising, then, that the three books I revi... Read More about Lesbian and gay marriage: Transformation or normalisation?.

'A Marriage of Inconvenience?' Feminist Perspectives on Marriage (2003)
Journal Article

A key aim of this special feature is to broaden feminist discussions of marriage by bringing the personal (and political) perspectives and experiences of heterosexual
feminists (and their male partners) to the debate. This special feature consists o... Read More about 'A Marriage of Inconvenience?' Feminist Perspectives on Marriage.

'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)
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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

Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the story completion (SC) method of collecting qualitative data, a novel technique that offers intriguing potential to the qualitative researcher. Since the method is new to qualitative research, it has fewer published researc... Read More about Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods.

Thematic analysis
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