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Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers
by Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD
Examine the impact of disclosure on sons whose fathers are gay!
In this book, Andrew Gottlieb, author of Out of the Twilight: Fathers of Gay Men Speak,
explores yet another side of the impact of homosexuality on families. He now looks at how
sons react to learning that their fathers are gay, allowing us to see, over time, how this
has changed their family relationships and their own lives. Simply and elegantly written,
this psychoanalytically oriented qualitative research study is accessible to both the
beginner and the more advanced researcher and practitioner. It draws from a wide range of
literary, popular, and psychological sources and includes an interview guide, a reference
section, and an index.
“When someone discloses as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, it is not just an individual
event. It is a family event. Based on estimates of married gay, lesbian, and bisexual
persons, a spouse's coming out affects up to 2,000,000 couples. Yet, its impact has been
largely ignored. Children’s voices are the least often heard. . . . Little has been
written about sons of fathers who came out during or after marriage. Data for studies that
do exist most often draw from the fathers' point of view. . . . The significance of this
study lies in its comprehensive, detailed picture of sons and gay fathers as they develop
their separate self-images as well as the images of their son-father relationships over
time. Painful, sensitive, often triumphant, the stories and [the author’s] analysis
of their thoughts, perceptions, and feelings afford a multidimensional, longitudinal
viewing. Step by step, we follow the complicated dance of these sons and fathers as they
develop and define their connection.”
—from the Foreword by Amity Pierce Buxton, Author of The Other Side of the Closet:
The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families
Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves is a storybook—an extended narrative
moved along, but not overshadowed, by psychoanalytic theory. The Introduction briefly
reviews more recent writings of the fathering experience as told by gay men themselves,
setting the stage for:
“Father to Child”—a look at the father as seen through the ever-shifting
eyes of his son at different phases of the life cycle
“The Quest for the Real Father”—an examination of sons' responses to their
fathers' homosexuality as captured in film, fiction, nonfiction, television, and the
psychological literature
“Methodology”—the story of the research process, including sampling, the
search for subjects, trustworthiness, the interview, bias, and data collection
“The Stories”—an anthology of narratives the author constructed from the
interview material, painting an intimate portrait of each individual son
“Findings”—a categorical analysis
“Discussion”—a summary of all the preceding material cast in a
developmental framework, highlighting implications for future research and clinical
practice
ORDER CODE: HP-1-56023-179-3-B
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