Publication: (Des)naturalización y elección: emergencias en la parentalidad y el parentesco de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales
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2015
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Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología (CSIC)
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En los procesos de transformación de las estructuras familiares que han vivido las sociedades europeas, y específicamente la española, en las últimas décadas, las familias formadas por lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales (LGBT) han ocupado un lugar protagonista. La hipótesis de partida de nuestro trabajo de investigación exploratorio ha sido que, conjuntamente con las rupturas que las llamadas familias arcoíris (las formadas por personas LGBT) han incorporado a las concepciones de la familia, las nuevas situaciones familiares en este colectivo se interpretan reproduciendo algunos de los elementos del modelo hegemónico vigente. Así, aunque existen emergencias en lo que se refiere al acceso a la parentalidad y a la división sexual de las tareas reproductivas y domésticas, se mantiene generalmente la hegemonía del modelo de familia nucleada en torno a la pareja o el deseo de lazos genéticos que legitimen la filiación. Asimismo, es de suma importancia reconocer el proceso de transformación creativa del parentesco tradicional que este colectivo lleva adelante, cuyo correlato es la revisión y redefinición del parentesco en su conjunto.
In recent decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT or rainbow) families have become key players in the transformation processes affecting family structures in European societies, and specifically in Spain. Our research hypothesis is that, even as rainbow families have caused ruptures in pre-existing concepts of family, they have also reproduced certain contemporary hegemonic models. There have been changes in relation to access to parenting and the sexual division of reproductive and domestic work. However, the hegemonic model of the nuclear family is still based on «coupling» and the desire to maintain genetic ties in order to legitimise filiation. As such, LGBT families are engaged in a creative transformation of traditional kinship, broadening and redefining the concept to incorporate same-sex and heterosexual families.
In recent decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT or rainbow) families have become key players in the transformation processes affecting family structures in European societies, and specifically in Spain. Our research hypothesis is that, even as rainbow families have caused ruptures in pre-existing concepts of family, they have also reproduced certain contemporary hegemonic models. There have been changes in relation to access to parenting and the sexual division of reproductive and domestic work. However, the hegemonic model of the nuclear family is still based on «coupling» and the desire to maintain genetic ties in order to legitimise filiation. As such, LGBT families are engaged in a creative transformation of traditional kinship, broadening and redefining the concept to incorporate same-sex and heterosexual families.