Sexualities and Identities of Minority Women
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Sexualities and Identities of Minority Women
Edited by Sana Loue, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
This singular volume addresses the issues confronting minority women of diverse sexual orientations (lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and questioning)—challenges that often diverge substantially from those of other women of color, and from those affecting minority men who have sex with men. Contributions from scholars, public health professionals, and members of the community reveal a wide range of developmental, relational, political, and legal concerns that have been given scant attention in either the minority or the sexual minority literature. From these varied perspectives, experiences of stigma and unity, isolation and hope, are discussed with rare sensitivity and insight. Key areas of coverage include:
Development of sexual identity and minority identity: similarities and differences.
Minority sexual status among minorities/minority status among sexual minorities.
Constructing the family: social and legal aspects.
Navigating the health care system: from access to care to disclosure to providers.
Safety and violence in the workplace and community.
Religion and spirituality: exclusion and support.
Sexualities and Identities of Minority Women is not only a source of practice-enhancing information, but also an opportunity to hear the voices of its subject, making the book especially relevant to health care providers, and to professionals and researchers in psychology, sexuality, public health, health policy, social work, and counseling. It is suitable as a graduate-level text in any of these fields.
The concept for this book came about following the publication of the volume Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men, published by Springer in 2008. Consistent with its title, that work focused on speci?c health issues identi?ed by communities, researchers, and AIDS service providers that were and continue to be of concern . During the preparation of that volume, I received numerous telephone calls and e-mails from women in various parts of the country, asking why a book was not also being developed to address their often-neglected concerns. Accordingly,thetopicsaddressedinIdentitiesandSexualitiesofMinorityWomen were developed based on input from minority women who participated in focus groups conducted in diverse regions of the United States. These focus groups were held speci?cally to provide an opportunity for sexual minority women in minority communities to identify those issues that from their perspective are most salient and relevant to their lives. It is notsurprising, in view of the variation in process by which the topics were identi?ed, as well as the differences in perspective as- ciated with differences in sex and gender, that this resulting compilation of topics departs substantially from the focus of the companion text addressing health issues of minority men who have sex with men.
Only book available devoted to sexual minorities who are also minority women Has a wide focus on minority women with diverse sexual minority identities: lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and questioning Works from a broad interdisciplinary scope; drawing from psychology, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, law, religion, and public health
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Sana Loue
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