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Objectification or liberation? Bisexual and lesbian women's experiences with physical appearance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Objectification or liberation? Bisexual and lesbian women's experiences with physical appearance./
Author:	Black, Amy.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2006,
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International75-10B.
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3239900
ISBN:	9780542944147

Objectification or liberation? Bisexual and lesbian women's experiences with physical appearance.
Black, Amy.

Objectification or liberation? Bisexual and lesbian women's experiences with physical appearance. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2006 - 273 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2006.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Using a multi-method qualitative design and analytic approaches derived from grounded theory, the current study examined the appearance standards within lesbian and bisexual communities and how these norms relate to lesbian and bisexual women's psychological experiences with physical appearance. The study investigated how the women's diverse social identities relate to these experiences. Participants consisted of a relatively diverse sample of 24 bisexual (n = 10) and lesbian (n = 14) women who took part in 1 of 4 focus groups. From this sample, 4 bisexual women and 6 lesbians were recruited to participate in in-depth interviews. Participants represented a broad age range (18--62; M = 36.2). Participants discussed their experiences with the internalization of appearance standards within both mainstream and lesbian subculture and how this related to their sexual identity and body image. Both lesbian and bisexual women repeatedly discussed two conflicting concepts: (1) having freedom from and resistance to traditional and oppressive norms of appearance (e.g., celebration of all kinds of women, body sizes, beauty in curvaceousness, non-traditional gender norms); and (2) pressure to conform to strict standards within lesbian communities (e.g., dress code, butch/femme identities). The latter serves primarily as a "survival" tool or a way through which they can signify their membership in the lesbian community. Within the interviews, participants discussed their experiences of objectification and its subsequent effects of body consciousness and self-objectification. The act of self-objectification served as a strategy to cope with and anticipate others' reaction to their bodies. By viewing themselves from an outsider's perspective, several women experienced negative psychological consequences such as anxiety, body dissatisfaction, and disruption in "flow." Finally, a small sample of participants (n = 4) discussed specific mental health outcomes as a result of their anxiety and body dissatisfaction. Suggestions for future research to explore these strategies and the more specific ways lesbian and bisexual women experience objectification, body consciousness and the negative outcomes of self-objectification are provided.

ISBN: 9780542944147Subjects--Topical Terms:

520219
Social psychology.
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Bisexual

Objectification or liberation? Bisexual and lesbian women's experiences with physical appearance.
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