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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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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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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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Lesbian Sexuality

Journal of Homosexuality, 1979
A study was conducted to determine what physical sexual activities lesbians engage in and what attitudes lesbians have toward various aspects of their sexuality. The sample consisted of 286 homosexual women. This article reports results in the following areas: first orgasm, first sexual experience with another women, sexual fantasies, number of sex ...
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Lesbian landscape

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2016
In this article about first love, the author discusses her coming of age as a lesbian who is also tribally affiliated.
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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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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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Homosexuality and Lesbianism

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
DefinitionsHomosexual behaviour often occurs among persons who do not have a settled homosexual orientation. Sometimes, as among prisoners, it can be the direct result of lack of contact with the opposite sex. Around puberty, especially among males, it may represent the easiest way of testing sexual performance.
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The Value of Children to Lesbian and Non-Lesbian Mothers

Journal of Homosexuality, 2000
This study compares the responses of a sample of lesbian and non-lesbian mothers to items on the Value of Children (VOC) Scale. This instrument measures the reasons that may explain why adults become parents and the values and functions for children in the lives of adults.
A L, Siegenthaler, J J, Bigner
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