| Expertise: - Gay parenting and family issues
- Gender and parenting
- The politics of family values (in U.S. and in South Africa)
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Judith Stacey is Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Previously she was the Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and also on the faculty at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Stacey’s works focus on changing forms and meanings of gender, family and sexuality. She is most noted for her research on gay and lesbian family issues. Dr. Stacey has written four books, has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and lectured extensively throughout the country. She has served as an expert witness in cases on same-sex marriage and parenting rights in the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Stacey’s work has mostly concentrated on changes in family structure. Her writings explain and support the idea that the definition of a family has changed around the world and family diversity should be accepted and supported. Dr. Stacey has also been very vocal about same-sex marriage and gay family rights issues. Her most influential research has been the examination of 21 studies of children of gay or lesbian parents. On the one hand, she challenged a dominant perspective that there are no differences at all between children raised by lesbian, gay, or heterosexual parents. However, these small differences do not represent deficits. Dr. Stacey concluded that the parent’s sexual orientation had little to do with successful child rearing. Results demonstrate that children who grow up with lesbian or gay parents tend to function at least as well as other children. Selected publications: Stacey, J. & Biblarz, T. (2001). (How) does the sexual orientation of parents matter. American Sociological Review, 66(2), 159-183. “Gay Parenthood and the Decline of Paternity as We Knew It,” Sexualities 9, n.1 (2006): 27-55. Stacey, J. "The Families of Man: Gay Male Intimacy and Kinship in a Global Metropolis," Signs 30, n.3 (2005):1911-35.
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