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The Lesbian Personality

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1969
This paper is an attempt to fill the void in objective investigation into the personality factors of lesbians. Although the subject of male homosexuality has been investigated exhaustively, it was not until relatively recently that studies concerned with lesbianism have been published, beginning with Armon (1960), then Bene (1965), Kaye et al.
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Lesbian stereotypes

Health Care for Women International, 1992
The American Psychological Association's Committee on Gay and Lesbian Concerns (Herek, 1987) expressed a need for research that focuses specifically on the concerns of lesbians. To this end, we attempted to identify stereotypes about lesbians, as noted in 278 female nursing students' responses to open-ended questions.
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The Visible Lesbian

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2005
The Lesbian Community Action Association is a grassroots organization founded in a Midwestern university town in 1993 to counteract and thwart the efforts of the Amendment Coalition. These social and religious conservatives were collecting signatures in the hopes of placing on a state-wide ballot an initiative that would have made it illegal for cities,
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Lesbianism in China

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1992
Lesbianism in China has a long but usually hidden history. This paper examines the historical and literary sources of the past to illustrate the history of lesbianism and then turns to a survey of lesbianism in the China of today. As in the past, lesbianism remains more or less hidden, and comes to light only occasionally.
Fang Fu Ruan, Vern L. Bullough
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Women on Women: Lesbian Identity, Lesbian Community, and Lesbian Comics

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2009
Decades of communication research have shown that the stories we humans tell ourselves about ourselves reflect and shape our identities as members of our particular culture(s). By creating texts that portray a group rarely made visible, lesbian comic artists both represent and define lesbian identity and community.
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Lesbians as Luvbeins

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1999
SUMMARY Lesbians who do not follow the imperative of monogamous, live-in lovers with one other woman are seen as traitors, heretics, and generally fallen women. In a community that often demands conformity, we must find language that includes other ways of being.
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Lesbian and bisexual women’s interpretations of lesbian and ersatz lesbian pornography

Sexuality and Culture, 2005
The purpose of the current study was to examine non-heterosexual women’s interpretations of “lesbian” material contained in pornography targeting male viewers and pornography made by and for lesbian women. Four focus groups were conducted (N=17) in which participants saw two pornographic sequences; one ostensibly for heterosexual males and the other ...
Todd G. Morrison, Dani Tallack
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Lesbianism and Choice

Journal of Homosexuality, 1992
Why does it matter whether a woman can choose whether to be lesbian? I argue by illustration that, first of all, it does make good sense to see the option to be lesbian as genuine for women in a fairly common sort of circumstance; that recognizing the genuineness of this option, however, does not impute to such women major control over their lives ...
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