Sexism and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parenting in a Sample of Heterosexuals and Sexual Minorities: the Mediation Effect of Sexual Stigma

Pistella, Jessica; Tanzilli, Annalisa; Ioverno, Salvatore; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Baiocco, Roberto

doi:10.1007/s13178-017-0284-y

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“…As previous studies have shown (e.g. Pistella et al, 2018), gender inequalities and discriminatory treatments based on traditional beliefs about the superiority of men over women, sustain prejudices against sexual minorities. Public opinion can perceive LGBT groups' political demands for legal rights as a subversion of the social equilibrium based on the gender order, and in some cases political leaders ride the waves of the public fears.…”

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Gender Fundamentalism and Heteronormativity in the Political Discussion About Lesbian and Gay Parenthood

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in reifying the uniqueness of heterosexual relationships and parenthood.Lesbian and gay parenthood was the preeminent bone of contention over the three-yearslong debate because of Section number 5 of the draft bill, which would recognize the right of one partner to adopt the biological children of the other partner, thus supposedly introducing a view of the family independent of the two genders (Garbagnoli, 2014). As a result, the section of the bill on adoption rights was so controversial that it had to be deleted in order for the law to pass, thus continuing to alienate lesbians and gays from kinship (Weston, 1991) and reasserting the control of heteronormativity over Italian politics despite the fact that the country has partially filled the legislative gap on this matter. This article investigates the parliamentary debate on the recognition of same-sex couples and their children that took place in Italy during the period from Specifically, through a Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 2001(Fairclough , 2003 of the speeches of Parliamentarians who opposed the section of the bill concerning lesbian and gay parenthood, the study addresses the following research questions: What are the discursive strategies currently used by the hegemonic heteronormative power to maintain the exclusive heterosexual access to reproduction and kinship? Did the hegemonic model of gender intelligibility inform legislative processes relating to family life and, if so, how?By framing the analysis within a poststructuralist feminist framework, the paper sheds light on the practices of power-knowledge (Foucault, 1978) that have been deployed to reallocate reproduction and kinship within the heterosexual matrix (Butler, 1990) once the parliamentary debate in Italy issued a challenge to the hegemonic heteronormative power. Moreover, this research offers a contribution to the understanding of how the conservative resistance to non-heterosexual families supports the institutionalization of sexualities and reproduction within the patriarchal order, which creates normative standards on the practices of motherhood (Hays, 1996;Rich, 1977) and, at

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Gender Fundamentalism and Heteronormativity in the Political Discussion About Lesbian and Gay Parenthood

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“…The internal consistency reliability of the entire scale was α = 0.80 for the lesbian form and α = 0.81 for the gay man form. We used the total score of the scale, as done by other authors [ 51 ]. Higher scores indicate greater internalized heterosexism.…”

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Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework

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Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desire to become parents are still understudied. As an extension of the minority stress theory, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on these psychological processes, as it encompasses a more clinical view of stress. Within this framework, the current study aimed at assessing the role of prejudice events in affecting parenting desire in 290 childless Italian LG individuals (120 lesbians and 170 gay men), as well as the role of internalized heterosexism and sexual orientation concealment in mediating the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire. The results suggest that only in lesbians prejudice events were negatively associated with parenting desire, and that sexual orientation concealment and internalized heterosexism were also negatively associated with parenting desire. Furthermore, sexual orientation concealment, and not internalized heterosexism, mediated the relationship between prejudice events and parenting desire in lesbians, but not gay men. The findings have important implications for clinical practice.

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“…Future studies could also use a more representative sample of the whole sexual minorities by involving women too, in order to analyze even differences of bullying between lesbians and gay men. In fact, the sport environment is even hostile toward lesbian athletes (Symons, O'Sullivan, & Polman, 2016); future research on lesbian athletes should include different variables, such as sexism (Pistella, Tanzilli, Ioverno, Lingiardi, & Baiocco, 2018), heterosexism (Szymanski et al, 2008) or the pressures and risks associated with "hegemonic femininity" (Krane, 2001; Roth & Basow, 2004), and should be further investigated in relation to the different ways in which they experience explicit homophobia compared to gay athletes in sports-related contexts (Griffin, 1993).…”

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Sports as a risk environment: Homophobia and bullying in a sample of gay and heterosexual men

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Pistella

Salvati

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Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health

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Research on bullying and homophobic bullying has mainly focused on school contexts, with little research in sports-related contexts. This study used a sample of 88 gay males and 120 heterosexual males between 18 and 36 years of age to examine the frequency of bullying experiences in Italian sports-related contexts. The results showed that gay men reported more frequent bullying and homophobic bullying than heterosexual men. Gay men reported dropping out of sports more frequently, namely due to a fear of being bullied and greater familial pressure to conform to masculine-type sports. It is necessary to promote safer sports-related contexts for people who self-identify as a sexual minority.

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Sexism and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parenting in a Sample of Heterosexuals and Sexual Minorities: the Mediation Effect of Sexual Stigma

Cited by 55 publications

References 81 publications

Gender Fundamentalism and Heteronormativity in the Political Discussion About Lesbian and Gay Parenthood

Gender Fundamentalism and Heteronormativity in the Political Discussion About Lesbian and Gay Parenthood

Parenting Desire and Minority Stress in Lesbians and Gay Men: A Mediation Framework

Sports as a risk environment: Homophobia and bullying in a sample of gay and heterosexual men

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