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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"lesbians"”.
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Lesbians and Their Mothers: A Taiwanese Experience
<p>Many studies, both in the United States and in Taiwan, have explored how the coming-out experience influenced LGBT individuals and their families, and some studies have also addressed how their familial relationships have been shaped because of the experience. As a Taiwanese who has studied …
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Stereotypes of older adult lesbians and gay men
… been research on stereotypes of age-unspecified lesbians and gay men. No research to date, however, has formally focused on stereotypes of older adult lesbians and gay men. This study examined stereotypes of older adult (age 65) lesbians and gay men as compared to stereotypes of older adult …
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Pre-service teachers' attitudes towards gays and lesbians
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Do Lesbians in the Military Pass as Heterosexual?
… multiple-case case study investigates if lesbians in the military, past and present, manage to "pass" as heterosexual. This project is designed with the aim of enabling new questions about old problems regarding gender and sexuality within American military culture. Data come from two …
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Mainstreaming Martina : representing lesbians in the '90's
… address the proliferation of representations of lesbians in North American mainstream media in the early to mid-1990s. Through a focus on a specific object/subject, Martina Navratilova, I investigate the discourse of progressiveness which accompanies this proliferation. As well, I argue that the …
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Butch, Femme, Dyke, Or Lipstick, Aren't All Lesbians The Same?: An Exploration Of Labels And "Looks" Among Lesbians In The U.S. South
… of gender, sexuality, and race among "out" lesbians in the U.S. south. In this thesis, I explore the following questions: (1) what labels are self-identified lesbians in the south using and/or applying to themselves, and how do they use them? (2) how do they talk about and experience their …
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XINGHUN: A "COOPERATIVE MARRIAGE" TIES CHINESE LESBIANS AND GAYS
<p>In modern China, although the normality of homosexuality has been officially admitted, misconception and discrimination against homosexuals are still prevalent in the mainstream of Chinese society. Chinese LGBT people endure two main sources of pressure: one is from the external and another is …
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College Student Identity and Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians
… an individual's attitude toward gay men and lesbians and their identity development. The sample included 440 undergraduates from a university in the northeast Texas area. Many, if not all, of the factors that are associated with negative attitudes toward gays and lesbians (i.e., restrictive …
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Laboring Lesbians at Gas Stations: Pumping the "Good Life"
… an analysis of the ways in which laboring lesbians perform emotional labor within this customer service environment. Emotional labor is a seminal contribution to a feminist analysis of the sociology of work. However, I am committed to complicating our understanding of emotional labor by …
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Now you see me: the invisibility of older lesbians
Monika Kehoe (1986) described older lesbians as "a triply invisible minority.‟ In this dissertation I seek to establish whether that description is still valid and, if so, why. I go on to ask, if older lesbians are culturally / discursively invisible, what are the circumstances which can enable …
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Sexual identity and health of young gay men and lesbians
… sexual identity and health of young gay men and lesbians. The sample was gained using a snowball technique; all informants were aged between 18 and 25 and identified themselves as gay or lesbian. Thirteen people were interviewed using a recursive in-depth technique. Through these in-depth …
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Dancing Across Borders: Women Who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life
… of formerly heterosexual women who become lesbians in mid-life. I have conducted my research as participant observer who has this core experience in common with the other subjects. I have also included my poetry and journal extracts to track and comment on the project and the topic. The …
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A model for the development of disordered eating among lesbians
… to the development of disordered eating among lesbians. In this study, a hypothesized Lesbian Model of Disordered Eating was tested using structural equation modeling. Lesbian Sexual Identity and Social Supports were hypothesized to positively influence Psychological Health. In addition, …
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The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
… this study is to assess the representations of lesbians within United States news print media to examine the effect these representations can have on societal level ideologies. Using two separate incidents of hate crimes resulting in death, this study looks at newspaper articles from two …
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Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives
<p>Covering, a construct that has been absent from the empirical psychological literature, is the pressure to or act of downplaying characteristics associated with a stigmatized identity (Goffman, 1963). This research investigated the covering demand in lesbian-identified women drawing on four …
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Generativity in the Lives of Non-Metropolitan Lesbians and Gay Men
… action in the lives of non-metropolitan lesbians and gay men. A concurrent qualitative-quantitative design was selected with an eye toward understanding what forms of generativity were occurring in respondents' lives and what contextual conditions were promoting that generativity. …
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Economic Consequences on Gays and Lesbians of Heteronormativity in the Workplace
… between gay men and straight men and between lesbians and straight women, to quantify these consequences. Using the National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2010, and controlling for several correlates of income, I use ordinary least squares regression to test the hypothesis that lesbians have …
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The Experience of Coming Out for Lesbians Sexually Abused in Childhood
Although existing literature is rich with 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 …
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Antecedents and outcomes of sexual orientation disclosure in the workplace among lesbians
Lesbians continue to be an invisible, stigmatized group in the United States, and as a result, engage in sexual identity management strategies to conceal and reveal their sexual identity across several different contexts. The experiences of sexual minorities in the workplace is one domain that has …
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