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Homosexuality, Female - Psychology
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Definition of 'Homosexuality, Female'Sexual attraction or relationship between females. Common names: Homosexuality, Female; Female Homosexuality; Lesbianism; Lesbians; Lesbian |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
30 Jul 2009
In recent population-based surveys, minority sexual orientation has been identified as a potential risk indicator for psychiatric morbidity. However, methodological limitations in the studies to date have led to concerns that current estimates are ... Read more...
29 Jun 2009
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women have endured a history of colonial oppression in the United States. Current manifestations of colonization include an epidemic of violence toward AIAN women, who often are sexually and physically abused ... Read more...
Troubled meditations on psychosexual differentiation: reply to Hegarty (2009).
29 Jun 2009
P. Hegarty (see record 2009-09998-015) offered several critiques of the articles by G. Rieger, J. A. W. Linsenmeier, L. Gygax, and J. M. Bailey (see record 2007-19851-006) and K. D. Drummond, S. J. Bradley, M. Peterson-Badali, and K. J. Zucker (see ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Homosexuality, Female - Psychology'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Burden of psychiatric morbidity among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals in the California Quality of Life Survey.
30 Jul 2009 - Abuse, mastery, and health among lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirit American Indian and Alaska Native women.
29 Jun 2009 - Troubled meditations on psychosexual differentiation: reply to Hegarty (2009).
29 Jun 2009 - Childhood gender noncomformity remains a robust and neutral correlate of sexual orientation: reply to Hegarty (2009).
29 Jun 2009 - Toward an LGBT-informed paradigm for children who break gender norms: comment on Drummond et al. (2008) and Rieger et al. (2008).
29 Jun 2009 - Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays.
30 May 2009 - Preference for attractiveness and thinness in a partner: influence of internalization of the thin ideal and shape/weight dissatisfaction in heterosexual women, heterosexual men, lesbians, and gay men.
11 May 2009 - Compensatory strategies for reducing interpersonal discrimination: the effectiveness of acknowledgments, increased positivity, and individuating information.
29 Apr 2009 - Lesbians' constructions of depression.
29 Apr 2009 - Stigma management and well-being: the role of perceived social support, emotional processing, and suppression.
27 Apr 2009 - Gay fathers' effects on children: a review.
30 Mar 2009 - Fostering nurses' political knowledges and practices: education and political activation in relation to lesbian health.
30 Mar 2009 - Legal and social contexts and mental health among lesbian and heterosexual mothers.
30 Mar 2009 - Sexual orientation disparities in weight status in adolescence: findings from a prospective study.
17 Mar 2009 - Individual trajectories of substance use in lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and heterosexual youth.
11 Mar 2009 - Gay and lesbian patients with cancer.
27 Feb 2009 - Risk reduction as an accepted framework for safer-sex promotion among women who have sex with women.
27 Feb 2009 - Disclosure of sexual orientation and subsequent substance use and abuse among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths: critical role of disclosure reactions.
27 Feb 2009 - Sexual orientation and weight, body image, and weight control practices among young Australian women.
27 Feb 2009 - When differences become essential: minority essentialism in response to majority treatment.
16 Feb 2009
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Technical information about 'Homosexuality, Female'
Definition: Sexual attraction or relationship between females.
Descriptor UI: D018452
Alternative terms: Homosexuality, Female; Female Homosexuality; Lesbianism; Lesbians; Lesbian;
Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; genetics; history; psychology; statistics & numerical data;
Tree Number: F01.145.802.975.500.400; G08.686.867.500.400;
Online Note: use HOMOSEXUALITY to search HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE 1976-80 & LESBIANISM 1968-94
History Note: 95; was see under HOMOSEXUALITY 1976-80; LESBIANISM was see HOMOSEXUALITY 1981-94, was see HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE 1976-80, & was see under HOMOSEXUALITY 1968-75
Technical Notes: check tag FEMALE