| dc.contributor.author | Bray, Catherine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-12-09T16:07:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-12-09T16:07:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-12-09T16:07:47Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149 /1775 | |
| dc.description | After the paper presentation (see attached paper), and with the support of thoughtful audience members who were well educated on the issues, we had a rich discussion. Connections were made between the two papers that had been presented, and fine suggestions were made about how I could advance my research. Suggestions included:
- recognize the importance of the entire “kinship tree” to lesbian parenting, especially other grandparents
- consider interviewing lesbian grandmothers from a wide variety of cultures, such as Chinese-Canadians and Indo-Canadians
- examine publications of the feminist legal research community, which also rely on biography as a starting point for their work. Biography is essential.
- starting with biography avoids the double-distancing that often goes on when researchers who are part of the community they are researching don’t acknowledge their social location.
- recognize the importance of radical sociology: i.e. Marilyn Porter’s statement “you call yourself a sociologist but you haven’t been arrested yet!”. Marx, Weber and Durkheim were activists as well are rigorous researchers.
- be aware of the problem of using memory as a source – because memory often “fails” us
- be open to dialectic dialogue
- consider the effect of homophobia and transphobia in schools which can result, for instance, in bullying
- avoid double negatives in the powerpoint presentation
I will be able to incorporate all of these suggestions in my future work. I am enthused about this project because of the paper’s reception. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Recognizing that grandmothering is a culturally specific experience, in this presentation I will discuss the relative absence of lesbian grandmothers in the Canadian research literature on work and families. In particular I will critique heterosexism in family studies and ageism in queer family literature. Secondly, I will suggest corrections to “grandmother research” so as to include lesbian grandmothers. The paper will conclude with suggestions for transformation of research by, for and about grandmothers and their family work in Canada. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Academic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF) | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G1034; | |
| dc.subject | lesbian grandmothers | en |
| dc.subject | hterosexism | en |
| dc.title | Making Space for Lesbian Grandmothers: A Review of Canadian Research on Gender and Family Work presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association in Vancouver, BC, June 3-6, 2008 | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
