Mom, dad, I'm straight: the coming out of gender ideologies in adolescent sexual-identity development.
Little attention has been given to how femininity and masculinity ideologies impact sexual-identity development. Differentiating violations of conventional femininity and masculinity ideologies as part of an overt process of sexual-identity development in sexual-minority adolescents suggested the possibility of a parallel process among heterosexual adolescents. Based on feminist theory and analysis of heterosexual adolescents narratives about relationships, the importance of negotiating femininity and masculinity ideologies as part of sexual-identity development for all adolescents is described.
Striepe
Meg I
MI
Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA. mstriepe@wellesley.edu
Tolman
Deborah L
DL
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D041923:Adolescent Development; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D019529:Sexuality; D014342:Truth Disclosure