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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"lesbian relationships"”.
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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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Non-Physical Forms of Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships
… primarily on physical violence in heterosexual relationships. Non-physical forms of abuse receive secondary attention, despite reported claims from survivors that non-physical forms of abuse are more common, more painful, and have longer lasting effects than physical forms of abuse. The dominant …
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Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships
… the dissonance between the lived experience of lesbian battering and the dominant domestic violence discourses. The work's title describes the underlying power of utopic understandings of lesbian relationships as articulated by the vestiges of lesbian-feminist philosophy that permeate the …
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A Qualitative Study of Equality in Long-Term Lesbian Relationships
This study explores how 30 long-term lesbian couples, who have lived together 15 or more years, conceptualize and practice equality within their partnerships. Verbal pictures of each couple provide a sense of who they are, how they met, and what is important to them. Dialogue about the egalitarian …
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An Examination of Power Differentials and Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships
Researchers investigating lesbian intimate partner violence (IPV) encourage a movement from the study of prevalence rates to the examination of the complexities of IPV in lesbian relationships (Ristock, 2003). The current study examined power differentials and their associations with reported …
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Lesbian Couple Dynamics and Heterosexist Stressors: Building a Foundation for Culturally Competent Relationship Interventions
<p>Lesbian relationships are severely underrepresented in the couples and family literature (Hartwell, Serovich, Grafsky, & Kerr, 2012). The current study sought to expand the basic science on lesbian couples with the overarching goal of informing evidence-based relationship interventions. The …
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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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Really Daddy: A Collection of Stories
… African religion devotees who don’t approve of lesbian relationships, the maid who sacrifices her daughter to a lecherous boss so the rest of her family can eat, and the gay Muslim brother and his lesbian sister in conflict over what to do with his baby. Reflecting the contemporary world in …
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Black lesbian identities, power and violence in public and private spaces
This study examined black South African lesbian’s lived experiences of power and violence through a reading of the lesbian body as a site through which social identities and power are produced, maintained, contested and reframed. The analytic gaze was cast inward on intimate relationships as well …
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Relationships, psychological distress and stigma: a counselling psychology perspective
… various areas of life, including interpersonal relationships, productivity and emotional well-being. Existing research in the area of PMS is largely quantitative and has been conducted using a positivist framework; the few qualitative studies undertaken have examined women’s individual …
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Effects of Exposure to Abuse and Violence in Childhood on Adult Attachment and Domestic Violence in Women’s Same-Sex Relationships
… 2005). However, while studies have shown that lesbian intimate battering occurs as frequently, if not more than, heterosexual domestic violence (Gosselin, <a>[ARF1]</a> 2003; Niolon, 2002), it remains understudied. Therefore, this study not only examines the relationship between childhood abuse …