作者: Julie Fish
关键词: Gender studies 、 Optimal distinctiveness theory 、 Lesbian health 、 Preventive health 、 Disease 、 Perspective (graphical) 、 Feminist psychology 、 Mental health 、 Sociology 、 Health care
摘要: Although women’s health has been a central concern of feminist psychology, lesbian largely overlooked. Adopting approach, this article considers the distinctiveness psychology by examining contexts for health. Notions disease and risk have underpinned endeavour constituting lesbians’ as research discipline. Dominant traditions established along key dimensions difference from heterosexual women: differences in preventive behaviours, healthy experiences healthcare, mental discrimination. In article, I propose an agenda critically informed perspective explanations that do not reinscribe pathology.