Goldner V
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York NY 10010.
Fam Process. 1988 Mar;27(1):17-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1988.00017.x.
This essay argues that gender is an irreducible category of clinical observation and theorizing, as crucial to the family therapy paradigm as the concept of "generation." Gender, therefore, is not a secondary, mediating variable like race, class, or ethnicity, but, rather, a fundamental, organizing principle of all family systems. The author analyzes the history and politics of family therapy in order to explicate how gender, as a co-equal concept, was erased as a universal principle of family organization, leaving only generation. The theoretical and clinical implications of situating gender at the center of family therapy are then discussed.
本文认为，性别是临床观察和理论化中一个不可简化的范畴，对于家庭治疗范式而言，它与“代际”概念同样至关重要。因此，性别并非像种族、阶级或族裔那样是一个次要的、起中介作用的变量，而是所有家庭系统的一个基本的组织原则。作者分析了家庭治疗的历史与政治，以阐明作为一个同等重要概念的性别，是如何作为家庭组织的普遍原则被抹去的，只留下了代际。随后讨论了将性别置于家庭治疗中心的理论和临床意义。
