How do values, beliefs, and assumptions about femininity shape relational experiences? To answer this question, we critically feminize family science by applying femme theory to the field. Through this analysis, we present some of the ways that femmephobia (i.e., the systematic devaluation and regulation of femininity across all bodies and identities) is established in childhood and perpetuated throughout various relational contexts across the life course. Specifically, we examine how femmephobia is socialized via families, systematically normalized and perpetuated throughout childhood, and how it shapes gender-based violence risk, perpetration, and tactics. We demonstrate how femme theory illuminates the importance of disentangling the intersectional axes of gender, sexuality, and gender expression, thereby generating novel approaches for family and relationship science and interventions that promote systemic social change. Subordinating and regulating femininity affects all individuals, making its disruption of critical importance for the prevention of gender-based violence and the promotion of healthy families and relationships.

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批判性地女性化家庭科学：使用女性理论产生研究家庭和关系的新方法

关于女性气质的价值观、信念和假设如何塑造关系体验？为了回答这个问题，我们通过将女性理论应用于该领域来批判性地将家庭科学女性化。通过这一分析，我们展示了女性恐惧症（即对所有身体和身份的女性气质的系统性贬值和调节）在童年时期形成并在整个生命历程的各种关系背景中持续存在的一些方式。具体而言，我们研究了女性恐惧症如何通过家庭社会化、系统地正常化并贯穿整个童年，以及它如何塑造基于性别的暴力风险、实施和策略。我们展示了女性理论如何阐明解开性别、性和性别表达的交叉轴的重要性，从而为家庭和关系科学以及促进系统性社会变革的干预措施产生新的方法。从属和规范女性气质会影响所有人，使其破坏对于预防基于性别的暴力和促进健康的家庭和关系至关重要。