Sexuality and the ‘relations of ruling’ : using institutional ethnography to research lesbian and gay foster care and adoption

摘要: This article makes use of institutional ethnography to research foster care and adoption by lesbians gay men, drawing on the work feminist sociologist Dorothy E. Smith in order demonstrate investigation social categories ‘relations ruling’. Through an analysis ways which ‘gender’ idea ‘gender role model’ is used within assessment lesbian carers adopters, author shows how these are produced police relationship forms identify ‘deviant instances’.