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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"lesbian women"”.
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Leisure Spaces and leisure Constraints for Lesbian Women
… spaces are gendered, differentiating men and women in their opportunities for and outcomes of leisure (e.g., Aitchison, 1999; Henderson & Shaw, 2006). Gender expectations generate leisure constraints especially for women (Shaw et al., 1991). Furthermore, within the female group, lesbians face …
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A Qualitative Study of Body Image in Lesbian Women
… understanding of body image-related issues for lesbian women. It assists in understanding health issues for lesbian women, and adds to our understanding of why different people are more or less susceptible to negative body image. This study also provides a theoretical basis for planning …
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A Daily Diary Investigation of Discrimination and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women
<p>Lesbian women may experience discrimination because of their gender and their sexual orientation termed sexism and heterosexism, respectively. Both sexism and heterosexism are associated with increased psychological distress and negative affect among lesbian women. Furthermore, preliminary …
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Trends of utilisation of reproductive health services by lesbian women in Cape Town
Background: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has historically been marginalised. Increased international awareness of the LGBT profile has led to the recognition that the medical profession has overlooked the health needs of lesbian women, with a resultant paucity of data …
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Seeing ghosts: The absented presence of black lesbian women in mid-2000s Kwa-Thema and the legacies of trauma
… to the study of my own trauma as a living black lesbian woman and the vicarious trauma I experience in relation to the long list of assaulted and murdered black lesbian women in South Africa: specifically, the ones from my hometown of Kwa-Thema, Springs, in the mid-2000s, as well as the trauma of …
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Heterosexual and lesbian women's attributions of domestic violence and myth endorsement behaviors
… about domestic violence using heterosexual women samples. This study investigated how heterosexual and lesbian women make attributions about domestic violence, as well as their myth endorsement behaviors. It also looked at the effect of participants’ egalitarianism on their victim blaming …
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Just a piece of paper? : lesbian experiences of marriage through the Civil Union Act in South Africa
… the meanings of marriage for South African lesbian women who have accessed marriage as a legal right through the Civil Union Act since its inception in 2006. As a researcher coming from the United States, where same-sex marriage is not nationally available, to South Africa, where same-sex …
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Voices from the Hinterland: lesbian women's experience of Irish health care
There is a lack of knowledge about lesbian women's lives and social experiences in Irish society. Lesbian women's invisibility is reinforced and permeated in all ocial institutions in society such as religion, education and the family. This thesis eals with the nature of being-in-the-world of …
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Cultivating a Rainbow Median Through the Study of Sexuality in Second Language Acquisition: Identity Construction of Lesbian Women Native to the Southern Region of the United States
… normative. As such, this study investigates how lesbian identities are constructed for women native to the Southern region of the United Sates, and how, or to what degree, language is a facet of this construction. The research for this study will be qualitative in nature and be framed per Irving …
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The Experience of Coming Out for Lesbians Sexually Abused in Childhood
… descriptions of the process of coming out for lesbian women, the present study is distinctive in its systematic examination of coming out from the perspective of lesbian women who were sexually abused as children. Through the hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis of interviews with selected …
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Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives
… research investigated the covering demand in lesbian-identified women drawing on four related literatures: acculturation, discrimination, stigma, and self-concealment. The objectives of this research were to examine the impact of structural, legal covering demands on psychological domains and …
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Masculine stereotypes of lesbians and masculine-looking women : potential advantages of assumed agentic qualities in employment
… whether or not agentic stereotypes attributed to lesbian and masculine appearing women would provide an advantage in obtaining employment. Previous research has shown that lesbian women are favored over heterosexual women, and masculine appearing individuals are favored over feminine appearing …
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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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Family Experiences of Single Sexual Minority Women from the Baby Boom
… in a heterosexual relationship. Historically, lesbian women have been considered single because their relationships were not legally recognized. Single women and lesbian women have had more choices to live outside heterosexual marriage, financially and with social acceptability, in the later …
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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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Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women
… sensitivity in young adult sexual minority women. The relationships between sexual identity centrality and current alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, and sexual minority stress outcomes were also examined with race as a potential moderator. African American/Black and Non-Hispanic White …
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Women, sexuality, and social control: A study in deviance
The perception of lesbian women as more criminal than heterosexual women can be seen in many facets of our culture over time. This study examines that perception as it appears in the media, government, politics, religion, entertainment, education and more. The assumption is also reviewed as it …
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"Loosey goosey" liberation: A critical feminist ethnographic study of the community created through the safe spaces of book clubs
… a new introduction in which she states that women continue to be limited in their access to discursive spaces where they can participate and engage equally. This thesis argues that women have created their own discursive spaces, or safe spaces, to compensate for their restricted access to the …
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