Lesbians and Lesbian Families by Joan Laird

Lesbians and Lesbian Families

Reflections on Theory & Practice

Joan Laird

This cutting-edge collection of articles examines the sociocultural context of the lives of lesbians and lesbian families and reveals how new insights about lesbian identities, experiences, and relationships can be integrated into clinical theory and practice. A family therapist, Joan Laird presents several clinical approaches to working with lesbians as individuals and in couple and parenting relationships and to viewing sexual orientation in its full complexity of race, class, gender, and cultural identity. Rich with clinical case studies and research on the everyday lives of lesbian families, this book includes chapters on the strategic language of self-disclosure, the family lives of lesbian mothers, and lesbian mothers who ‘come out’ to their adolescent children. — Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

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ISBN 9780231102537
Genre LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Copyright Date 1999
Publication Date 15-Mar-99
Publisher Columbia University Press
Editor Joan Laird
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 384
Language English
Rating NotRated
Editor Joan Laird
Subject Family Psychotherapy; Family Psychotherapy – United States; Lesbian couples; Lesbian Couples – United States; Lesbian Couples/ United States
BookID 7214

Author: LFWBooks