The View From Somewhere: Locating Lesbian Experience in Women's Health

McDonald, Carol; Anderson, Beverly L.

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“…These findings mirrored a "wish list" of sensitive lesbian care outlined by McDonald and Anderson (2003), that the provider should be respectful, recognize the woman's partner, be informed, act as an advocate, and challenge myths. Some participants displayed willingness to help improve the awareness of their HCP.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…Most related to the need to be honest, to avoid confusion, to role model appropriate attitudes for their children, and to highlight the parenting role of the non-birth mother. McDonald and Anderson (2003) refer to this as maintaining authenticity, as Lucy and Sarah demonstrated: Lucy (birth mother, de novo family): We've always been really out and open about it right from the beginning, haven't we. Sarah (non-birth mother): Not that it's been an easy thing necessarily to do.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The examples above show that a lack of recognition of the non-birth mother is a common basis for vulnerability, which is exacerbated when women do not feel that they could control or influence that recognition. McDonald and Anderson (2003) state that the health care system "should be a safe place for lesbians to authentically talk about their relationships with lovers, friends and family" (p. 708). This desire is reflected by some of the participants in our study, while others preferred not to speak about their family, even in potentially safe health care settings.…”

Section: Safety and Vulnerability In The Health Care Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Disclosure of lesbian orientation to health care providers (HCPs) is frequently raised as an issue by individual lesbian health care consumers (Robertson, 1992;Jordan & Deluty, 1998;van Dam, Koh, & Dibble, 2001;McDonald & Anderson, 2003). Some researchers suggest that coming out is an absolute requirement of effective health care and "is integral to the development of trusting relationships" (Johnson & Guenther, 1987, p. 237).…”

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Lesbian Parents Negotiating the Health Care System in Australia

McNair

Brown

Perlesz

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Health Care for Women International

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Twenty Australian lesbian-parented families were interviewed in multigenerational family groups about the interface between their public and private worlds. Experiences of the health care bureaucracy were difficult, whereas many participants found individual providers to be approachable and caring. Three strategies were used for disclosure of their sexual orientation to health care providers: private, proud, and passive. Influences on the strategy used included family formation, role of the non-birth parent, geographic location, and expected continuity of care. Parents displayed a high degree of thoughtful planning in utilizing their preferred disclosure strategy in order to optimize safety, particularly for their children.

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Section: The Bureaucracysupporting

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Section: Safety and Vulnerability In The Health Care Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Lesbian Parents Negotiating the Health Care System in Australia

McNair

Brown

Perlesz

et al. 2008

Health Care for Women International

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“…Being-in-the-world of health care for lesbian women as service users is as an outsider, rendering them vulnerable to the knowledgeable professional (Sauliner 2002). Lesbian women's susceptibility in health care has been well documented: with judgments about sexual orientation (Marrazzo et al 2005), and use of heterosexual language (McDonald et al 2003), being of particular relevance to the study of 'coming out' in hospital settings. Sartre (1969) offers a lens through which researchers can examine how lesbian women experience the self, as service users.…”

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Lesbian Women’s Experience of Coming Out in an Irish Hospital Setting: A Heremeutic Phenomenological Approach

Duffy

2011

Sex Res Soc Policy

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There is a dearth of knowledge about lesbian women's lives and social experiences in Irish society. In their day to day living, lesbian women know how to act, react and behave to exist within society, having developed what Draucker (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(2), p. 361; 1999) calls 'everyday skilful coping'. However, these taken-for-granted ways of understanding of being in the world are thrown or brought to the forefront when lesbian women seek health care. The overall aim of the research is to investigate lesbian women's experiences of Irish health care as service users. Within this article, I will explore how four lesbian women understand and give meaning to 'coming out' to a health care provider. Coming out is a precarious affair whereby lesbian women choose when, where and to whom to relate their sexuality. The experiences of these women are explored by utilising Sartre's (1969) concepts of being objectified by the Other, shame, freedom, illustrating how the self can be disrupted.

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Lesbian mothers' perceptions and experiences of their school involvement

Grigoropoulos

2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Lesbian‐parented families challenge the heteronormative dominant discourse of family in major social institutions such as schools. This study explores Greek lesbian mothers' experiences and perceptions of their interaction with the school personnel and other parents. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse the data obtained through in‐person interviews with 14 lesbian mothers. The study revealed three overarching themes: (a) anticipating teachers' rejection, (b) non‐traditional family models are not addressed in school curricula, and (c) Managing disclosure. Participants' experiences of anticipated rejection, of hiding and concealing their family structure and sexual identity confirm that LGBTQ+ individuals live in a macro‐ and micro‐environmental context which adds to minority stress and produces essential new challenges. The findings of this study are discussed in the light of the institutional sources of minority stress that affect lesbian mothers.

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The View From Somewhere: Locating Lesbian Experience in Women's Health

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Lesbian Parents Negotiating the Health Care System in Australia

Lesbian Parents Negotiating the Health Care System in Australia

Lesbian Women’s Experience of Coming Out in an Irish Hospital Setting: A Heremeutic Phenomenological Approach

Lesbian mothers' perceptions and experiences of their school involvement

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