國立虎尾科技大學 |

Beauty on the margin : = Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beauty on the margin :/
Reminder of title:	Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint.
Author:	Sebasco, Lisa K.
Description:	1 online resource (114 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: B, page: 5900.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-09B.
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781109388121

Beauty on the margin : = Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint.
Sebasco, Lisa K.

Beauty on the margin :Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint. - 1 online resource (114 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: B, page: 5900.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references

This interview study examined lesbians' thoughts about and experiences of beauty and female physical attractiveness. The participants were eight white lesbians between the ages of 30 and 40 living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interview first asked participants about physical attractiveness and beauty in the culture at large. Next, participants described their thoughts and feelings (a) when looking at women who are potential romantic or sexual partners, and (b) when looking at women in general. Finally, participants talked about their own physical appearance. All participants felt that beauty and female physical attractiveness are important and that lesbians do and should have standards of beauty and female physical attractiveness that are different from the standards held by other groups. Every participant felt she looked lesbian or queer, and they all liked the way they looked even though they each had things about their appearance they wished they could change. All participants thought there is no one way that a lesbian should look. Half felt their looks fit a "type"---of these, two described themselves as femme, two as butch. Seven believed there is "gaydar," a nonverbal way of finding lesbians based on subtle physical indicators. Every participant said that she had been discriminated against or that people have made assumptions about her based on her physical appearance. Five women felt that their ideas about physical attractiveness had changed over time with two reporting the changes happened after they came out. The findings of this research help to deconstruct the dominant culture's definition and standard of beauty, which disregards lesbian expression and experience, while providing an increased understanding of lesbians' broader definition of female physical attractiveness both within their community and in the larger culture. In light of these findings, clinicians will be better able to validate lesbian experience, support lesbian identity development, and help resolve internalized homophobia, while promoting increased self-esteem and self-efficacy for their lesbian patients. This study helps clinicians foster an appreciation of the political struggle that lesbians face while trying to make meaning in a heterosexist and misogynistic society.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781109388121Subjects--Topical Terms:

554804
Social psychology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Beauty on the margin : = Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint.
LDR:03507ntm a2200325Ki 4500 001 917801
005 20181022132219.5
006 m o u
007 cr mn||||a|a||
008 190606s2009 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9781109388121
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3377429
035 $a AAI3377429
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Sebasco, Lisa K. $3 1191971
245 1 0 $a Beauty on the margin : $b Female physical attractiveness from a lesbian standpoint.
264 0 $c 2009
300 $a 1 online resource (114 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: B, page: 5900.
502 $a Thesis (Psy.D.)--Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay, 2009.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This interview study examined lesbians' thoughts about and experiences of beauty and female physical attractiveness. The participants were eight white lesbians between the ages of 30 and 40 living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interview first asked participants about physical attractiveness and beauty in the culture at large. Next, participants described their thoughts and feelings (a) when looking at women who are potential romantic or sexual partners, and (b) when looking at women in general. Finally, participants talked about their own physical appearance. All participants felt that beauty and female physical attractiveness are important and that lesbians do and should have standards of beauty and female physical attractiveness that are different from the standards held by other groups. Every participant felt she looked lesbian or queer, and they all liked the way they looked even though they each had things about their appearance they wished they could change. All participants thought there is no one way that a lesbian should look. Half felt their looks fit a "type"---of these, two described themselves as femme, two as butch. Seven believed there is "gaydar," a nonverbal way of finding lesbians based on subtle physical indicators. Every participant said that she had been discriminated against or that people have made assumptions about her based on her physical appearance. Five women felt that their ideas about physical attractiveness had changed over time with two reporting the changes happened after they came out. The findings of this research help to deconstruct the dominant culture's definition and standard of beauty, which disregards lesbian expression and experience, while providing an increased understanding of lesbians' broader definition of female physical attractiveness both within their community and in the larger culture. In light of these findings, clinicians will be better able to validate lesbian experience, support lesbian identity development, and help resolve internalized homophobia, while promoting increased self-esteem and self-efficacy for their lesbian patients. This study helps clinicians foster an appreciation of the political struggle that lesbians face while trying to make meaning in a heterosexist and misogynistic society.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2018
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Social psychology. $3 554804
650 4 $a LGBTQ studies. $3 1179297
650 4 $a Women's studies. $3 572871
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0451
690 $a 0492
690 $a 0453
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay. $3 1184479
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 70-09B.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3377429 $z click for full text (PQDT)