Finding the Words

Font, Roberto; Vecchio, Ken Dolan-Del; Almeida, Rhea V.

doi:10.1300/j086v10n01_05

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“…Often, people do not love equally and rarely have equal power in a relationship. Power differences may be due to class, race, age, looks, income disparity, or other issues, like whether one partner is out at work and to his family as being gay and part of a committed relationship (Font, Dolan‐Del Vecchio, & Almeida, 1998). These imbalances often are not overtly acknowledged and can emerge in sexual negotiations—or the lack of such negotiations.…”

Section: Sex Power and Monogamymentioning

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Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples

Shernoff¹

2006

Family Process

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One issue that has the potential to confound family or couples therapists working with male couples is the issue of nonmonogamy. For many therapists, sexual nonexclusivity challenges fundamental clinical assumptions that "affairs," or extra-relationship sex or romantic involvements, are symptoms of troubled relationships and are always a form of "sexual acting out." This article explores the issue of sexual exclusivity and nonexclusivity within male couples. In order to achieve both clinical and cultural competency in work with male couples, therapists need to challenge their cultural biases regarding monogamy.

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Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples

Shernoff¹

2006

Family Process

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Gender identity and coping in female 46, XY adults with androgen biosynthesis deficiency (intersexuality/DSD).

Schweizer¹,

Brünner²,

Schützmann³

et al. 2009

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Individuals living with an intersex condition have not received much attention in counseling psychology, although a high need for psychosocial care is obvious. Using a mixed-methods multiple case study with qualitative and quantitative data, the authors explore coping and gender experiences in seven 46, XY intersexual persons with deficiencies of androgen biosynthesis. These were assigned female at birth. At puberty, the participants experienced unexpected physical virilization due to 5alpha-reductase-2 (n ϭ 3) and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-3 deficiency (n ϭ 4). All 7 received medical treatment (e.g., gonadal removal, genital surgery) to stop virilization and maintain the primarily assigned female sex and gender. The cases illustrate high adjustment challenges caused by the condition itself and the medical treatment experienced. None changed to male during adolescence as reported in previous studies. Highly variable patterns of gender identification become visible with subjectivities that do not only represent a binary gender model. Adult gender identity outcome of the participants is characterized by an increased uncertainty of gender identity, high male and low female gender identity. Implications for clinical management, particularly psychological counseling, are drawn.

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Sexing the Intersexed: An Analysis of Sociocultural Responses to Intersexuality

Preves¹

2002

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Sexing the Intersexed: An Analysis of Sociocultural Responses to Intersexuality explore here the social construction of gender in North America through an analysis of contemporary and historical responses to infants who are born genitally ambiguous, or intersexed (hermaphroditic).' Bodies that are sexually ambiguous challenge prevailing binary understandings of sex and gender. Individuals who are intersexed have bodies that are quite literally queer or "culturally unintelligible" (Butler 1993, 2). That is, their bodies do not conform to an overarching and largely unexamined social expectation that all humans belong to one of two clearly delineated sex categories, female or male (Wilson 1998). While being born with ambiguous sexual organs indeed problematizes binary understandings of sex and gender, the majority of intersexed children do not require medical intervention for their physiological health (Diamond and Sigmundson 1997b; Dreger 1998b; Kessler 1998).2 This article contains material from my forthcoming book, to be published by Rutgers University Press in 2002.

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Finding the Words

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples

Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples

Gender identity and coping in female 46, XY adults with androgen biosynthesis deficiency (intersexuality/DSD).

Sexing the Intersexed: An Analysis of Sociocultural Responses to Intersexuality

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