Honour beliefs and identity among British South Asian gay men

Jaspal, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8463-9519, 2020. Honour beliefs and identity among British South Asian gay men. In: Idriss, MM, ed., Men, masculinities and honour-based abuse. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367204440

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on honour beliefs in the British South Asian community and the impact for identity and well-being among British South Asian gay men. Through the lenses of social representations theory and identity process theory from social psychology, it also focuses on the social psychological underpinnings of parental reactions to coming out, which may culminate in honour abuse and forced marriage, and identity and experience among British South Asians who come out as gay. Identity process theory is an integrative social psychological theory of identity construction, threat and coping. The chapter aims to invoke tenets of both social representations theory and identity process theory to illustrate the significance of honour beliefs in the lives of British South Asian gay men. British South Asian gay men may perceive their social, cultural and familial environment to be stigmatising towards homosexuality and, thus, unaccommodating of the sexual identity that they construct.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Creators:	Jaspal, R.
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	Abingdon
Date:	2020
ISBN:	9780367204440
Identifiers:	Number Type 1316177 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	24 Apr 2020 14:29
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2021 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39730

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