SOCIAL MOVEMENT SELVES

lytic for understanding the production of postmodern selves and suggests that it is a means by which to further understandings about the construction of social movement selves. According to Holstein and Gubrium’s perspective, the construction of postmodern subjectivity is an interplay between circum-stantial resources and self-constituting work. As an example, I discuss research about a social movement organization in the GLBT (gay/lesbian/ bisexual/transgender) movement, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). I begin by illustrating how PFLAG parents can be understood as drawing on the narrative resources of the GLBT movement, in particular the dominant narrative of coming out. Next I discuss how PFLAG parents also do selves (as heterosexual parents), through everyday interac-tional identity work to construct afliation. In so doing, I illustrate a key pro-cess of Holstein and Gubrium’s analytic—the interplay between cultural constraints and artful agency in the production of postmodern selves—and show how it can help to explain the production of subjectivity in today’