Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0001-7291-5056
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Following interpretivist traditions focusing on how individuals make sense of and make meaning from their lived experience, the author, a heterosexual woman, travels with a gay male friend/participant to visit his estranged father, a retired Air Force pilot and elder in the Mormon Church. The work attempts to show the dialogic construction, negotiation, and transformation of identities and relationships.
Published In
Tillmann, L.M. (2015). Father's blessing: Ethnographic drama, poetry, and prose. In L.M. Tillmann (Ed.), In Solidarity: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straight (63-97). New York: Routledge.
Publication Title
Symbolic Interaction
ISSN
1533-8665
DOI
10.1525/si.2008.31.4.376
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