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Showing 1 to 20 of 640 for “"lesbian"”.
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Barriers to Lesbian Health Care
… this research was to examine a sample of sixteen lesbian women regarding the barriers to lesbian health-care. From this information several interpretive findings regarding lesbian health-care are made. Data were gathered via indepth interviews with each individual lesbian. The data suggest that …
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Understanding lesbian fandom: a case study of the Xena: Warrior Princess (XSTT) lesbian internet fans
… to promote and pursue an understanding of lesbian fandom and its function on the Internet. It will demonstrate how a particular television text Xena: Warrior Princess (X: WP) and a dedicated online fandom „xenasubtexttalk‟ (XSTT) of diverse lesbian fan membership gained empowerment and …
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Lesbian lingo: slang terminology in English and Spanish spoken by lesbian communities in the United States
… research project studies the speech of the lesbian community in the United States in English and Spanish. An anonymous online survey was used to collect demographic data and knowledge of English and Spanish lesbian slang terminology, and is analyzed to determine relationships between …
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The lesbian artist as a child
… to my experiences growing up as a feminist lesbian in the United States, England and Belgium in the 1970's and 80's. My monochromatic, childhood self-portraits reference some of the challenges I faced from western, hetero-centric patriarchy and my paper discusses how my identity as "Other" …
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Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships
… the issue of same-sex partner aggression among lesbians and bisexual women. Through in-depth interviews with 19 women who identify themselves as either lesbian or bisexual, information was documented in this study demonstrating the severity of issues of power and control among some same-sex …
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Racialised lesbian spaces : a Mancunian ethnography
… out in specific sexualised spaces, namely two lesbian bars in Manchester’s Gay Village. Through participant observations in those bars and qualitative interviews with women who identify as lesbian and bisexual and white, mixed-race, black and East Asian, the thesis explores the role of ‘race’ …
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Contemprary lesbian genders: A queer/ sociological approach
… an empirical study of the social construction of lesbian genders. I examine sociological work on sexuality, queer theory and feminist work on butch/femme. Lesbian identities are constructed at the intersection of specific discourses, structures and conscious agency. There is a lack of sociological …
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Managing Stigma in Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
The gay-and lesbian-parent family is a family form becoming more prevalent in today's diverse society. Now, with advances in reproductive technology and a growing acceptance of homosexuality, gay men and lesbians are having, adopting, and raising children in record numbers. The purpose of this …
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The effects of infidelity on lesbian relationships
… information on infidelity or affairs among lesbian couples. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the effects of infidelity on lesbian couples. An additional purpose of this study was to bring awareness to family therapists and mental health professionals about some challenges …
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The Social Construction of Rural Lesbian Identities
… desires with various labels including "gay," "lesbian," "queer," "bisexual," or preferred no label. Each of the participants talked about growing up rural areas of the Midsouth in communities which often were based on traditional, patriarchal families, fundamentalist Christianity, and …
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Lesbian coaches: Personal perspectives on being out
… the essence of the experience of being an out lesbian in elite coaching. Through the use of a feminist epistemology, a phenomenological methodology, and in-depth interviews with eight high performance coaches who identify as lesbian, it was possible to identify and describe the essence of their …
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The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration
<p>Lesbian erasure negatively impacts the accessibility to literature, archives, and records of lesbian history as a result of being buried within queer and feminist discourse. As a result, scholars often classify lesbians into other categories, effectively rendering them invisible and unimportant. …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
Female Ensembles is a study of lesbian historical fiction set in the nineteenth century. This project takes a reparative approach as Eve Sedgwick defines it (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues …
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Leisure Spaces and leisure Constraints for Lesbian Women
… 1991). Furthermore, within the female group, lesbians face additional constraints because of the intersection of sexism with homophobia (Pritchard et al., 2002; Taylor, 2007). In 2011, I conducted an online pilot study with a sample of 813 lesbians which suggested that for most participants, …
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Depression and self -silencing in lesbian and heterosexual women
Depression among lesbians is an underexplored area in the literature of the psychology of women and in depression research. A few investigators have hypothesized about the factors that place lesbians at risk for depression, and have explored those hypotheses experimentally. However, there is a …
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Social Identity and Substance Abuse in the Lesbian Community
… tobacco, and other drugs) among members of the lesbian community. Additionally, the investigator attempted to determine if there was a relationship between negative social identity and low selfesteem that is reflected in higher rates of substance abuse. The data collection method employed in …
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Suicide risk among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college youth
… suicidal behavior and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) college students, expanding the current literature involving GLB high school youth. This was accomplished by examining (1) the incidence of suicidal behavior among GLB college youth compared to their non-GLB peers, (2) …
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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… a gap in the literature by exploring how ‘lesbian’ identities, broadly understood as encompassing the whole spectrum of LBT (lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual) women’s sexualities, are (re)constructed and (re)negotiated in contemporary Russia. It draws on data generated through …
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