Reproductive Vocabularies: Interrogating Intersections of Reproduction, Sexualities, and Religion among U.S. Cisgender College Women

McCabe, Katharine; Sumerau, J. E.

doi:10.1007/s11199-017-0795-2

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“…These findings also support Murphy's (2004) call for studies concerning vocabularies of motive to move beyond only retrospective accounts to, as Mills (1940) argued, ascertain the ways anticipatory accounts reveal the likely future actions of people and the current vocabularies likely to be accepted by others in the same social group and normative context (see also McCabe and Sumerau 2018). Although family scholarship is no stranger to the examination of vocabularies of motive as a conceptual tool, such work, as is common in many areas of scholarship, has thus far mostly limited its focus to the vocabularies people provide for familial topics after the fact .…”

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Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women

Sumerau

Holway

2021

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In this article, we examine vocabularies of motive concerning the possibility of transgender partners and children. Data from 20 in-depth interviews with (mostly white) cisgender college-aged women in the southeastern United States were analyzed to determine how they construct familial ideals predicated upon cisgender norms and assumptions. Participants respond to the possibility of transgender family members by mobilizing vocabularies of ( 1) claiming exemptions and (2) emphasizing difficulty. We draw out implications for understanding vocabularies of cisgendering family that create the conditions for transgender marginalization within families, and the consequences cisgendering family has for the reproduction of inequality.

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confidence: 68%

“…Data for this study were derived from an in‐depth interview study about college women's expectations about family and reproduction (see also McCabe and Sumerau 2018). The first author conducted in‐depth interviews with twenty respondents who identified as cisgender women.…”

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Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women

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Holway

2021

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“…Whereas transgender reproduction is neither a new aspect of society nor accomplished only in a few specific ways, thus far reproduction scholars have left this population almost entirely unexamined (see also Riggs 2013). Whether conducting quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodological analyses, the reproduction subfield to date, regardless of intentions, has been limited to cisnormative versions and aspects of reproduction (see also McCabe and Sumerau 2018). In contrast, we have demonstrated how analyses of transgender reproduction can speak to cisnormativity and repronormativity in the broader society, and by implication, how reproductive scholarship more broadly might benefit from critical analyses of cisnormativity and its role in the social construction, experience, and representation of reproduction.…”

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“…Martin 1987). On the other hand, the incorporation of transgender people's reproductive endeavors shifts historical efforts to link pregnancy and childbirth to cisgender womanhood and cisnormative beliefs proposing that all people assigned female must identify as women (McCabe and Sumerau 2018). As transgender populations become increasingly visible and reproductive politics continue to hold major sway in u.S. politics and media, what are we to make of these tensions?…”

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Continuity and Change in Gender Frames: The Case of Transgender Reproduction

2019

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In this article, we examine the ways gendered frames shift to make room for societal changes while maintaining existing pillars of systemic gender inequality. Utilizing the case of U.S. media representations of transgender people who reproduce, we analyze how media outlets make room for increasing societal recognition of transgender people and maintain cisnormative and repronormative traditions and beliefs in the process. Specifically, we outline how these media outlets accomplish both outcomes in two ways. First, they reinforce cisgender-based repronormativity via conceptualizations of transgender reproduction as new and occurring in contrast to normative, cisgender reproduction. Second, they create a transnormative reproductive subject, which establishes a new socially sanctioned script for what it means to be transgender and what types of transgender experience may be recognized or accepted in mainstream society. In conclusion, we draw out implications for understanding how social authorities may shift existing gender frames to make room for changes in society while at the same time maintaining normative beliefs. These normative beliefs continue to facilitate societal patterns of gender inequality within such new frames.

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“…In studies focusing on societies where they usually present together-e.g., Japan and South Korea-the discussion tends to revolve around singlehood, whereas childfreeness is analyzed only as a consequence (Dales, 2014(Dales, , 2015Mandujano-Salazar, 2017;Nishi & Kan, 2006;Rosenberger, 2007;Song, 2010;Yamada, 2000). On the contrary, researchers studying societies where parenthood and marriage are less relatedfor example, the United States-they tend to focus on people who reject parenthood, regardless of the relationship status of their subjects (Bimha & Chadwick, 2016;Daniluk, 1999;Gillespie, 2003;Ireland, 1993;Laurent-Simpson, 2017;McCabe & Sumerau, 2018;Salyakhieva & Saveleva, 2017).…”

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Exploring the Construction of Adulthood and Gender Identity Among Single Childfree People in Mexico and Japan

Mandujano-Salazar

2019

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This article presents the analysis of personal narratives of Mexican and Japanese single and childfree cisgender heterosexual individuals to explore how people who do not comply with heteronormative gender roles related to marriage and parenthood build their gender identities as adults. It draws on in-depth interviews with 24 informants who were raised and lived in these two countries, amid hegemonic discourses on adulthood, masculinity and femininity that emphasize some form of heterosexual partnership and reproduction. It is found that, men interviewed from both countries were able to narratively defend their adulthood and gender identity through other attributes that are part of hegemonic masculinity. On the contrary, women had difficulties constructing themselves congruently; they recurred to external traits of hegemonic femininity to defend their womanhood, but to personality and lifestyle qualities related to hegemonic masculinity to construct their adulthood.

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Reproductive Vocabularies: Interrogating Intersections of Reproduction, Sexualities, and Religion among U.S. Cisgender College Women

Cited by 11 publications

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Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women

Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women

Continuity and Change in Gender Frames: The Case of Transgender Reproduction

Exploring the Construction of Adulthood and Gender Identity Among Single Childfree People in Mexico and Japan

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