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Clinician Practices in Determining Expected Body Weights Across Eating Disorders: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Eating disorder (ED) treatment often involves establishing expected body weights (EBWs). While individualised approaches are commonly used, whether and how EBWs are set across EDs, clinician perspectives on different approaches, and clinician training in this practice remain poorly understood.
Agatha A. Laboe   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking up the cudgels against gay rights? Trends and trajectories in African Christian theologies on homosexuality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Against the background of the HIV epidemic and the intense public controversy on homosexuality in African societies, this article investigates the discourses of academic African Christian theologians on homosexuality. Distinguishing some major strands in
Abogunrin S. O.   +68 more
core   +1 more source

Age‐Related Trends in Eating‐Pathology Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Adults

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine how eating‐disorder symptoms vary by chronological age and sexual orientation in sexual minority adults. Method Cross‐sectional data came from 2062 cisgender sexual minority participants (925 gay men, 573 lesbian women, 116 bi+ men, 448 bi+ women; age = 47.8 years, range = 18–96).
Jason M. Nagata   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2014
In 1988, the author and radical sex activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, a collection of lesbian sadomasochism-themed erotic fiction that provided visibility and erotic legitimacy for the modern lesbian leather community.
Carolyn Bronstein
doaj  

Archaeological possibilities for feminist theories of transition and transformation

open access: yes, 2008
Archaeology takes up material fragments from distant andrecent pasts to create narratives of personal and collective identity. It is, therefore, a powerful voice shaping our current and future social worlds.
Marshall, Yvonne
core   +1 more source

‘I had a lump in my stomach’: Swedish gay and lesbian students' experiences of their time in school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Objectives: Gay and lesbian youth can experience ignorance and a lack of acknowledgement surrounding their sexual orientation during their time in school.
Hammarlund, Kina   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

De « On ne naît pas femme » à « On n’est pas femme ». De Simone de Beauvoir à Monique Wittig

open access: yesGenre, Sexualité et Société, 2009
Revisiting the two famous quotes from Simone de Beauvoir’s “One is not born, but becomes a woman” and Monique Wittig’s “Lesbians are not women”, this article aims to discuss the concept of becoming woman.
Natacha Chetcuti
doaj   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender and sexuality constellations are constituted in secondary schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper explores the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality through a series of close readings of data generated through an ethnography undertaken in a south London secondary school.
Youdell, Deborah
core   +2 more sources

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