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Narrating rural lesbian lives: body image and lesbian community in central Pennsylvania
Megan R Yost1, Jennifer F Chmielewski
1Departments of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013, USA. yostm@dickinson.edu
Abstract:
Research on women's body image has focused on the sexual objectification that women experience in society. The present study explored how rural lesbian women experience their bodies and how lesbian communities, as safe havens from the dominant heterosexual culture, contribute to their body image. Ten lesbians living in central Pennsylvania were interviewed for this study. Interviews were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, which aims to explore individuals' experiences and examine how they make sense of their world. The resulting themes focus on participants' descriptions of their feelings about their bodies, the role that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities played in their sense of body image, and the difficulties of finding these communities in the central Pennsylvania area.
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