‘The family model is not the same anymore’: intercultural lesbian relationships in contemporary Spanish cinema by Fiona Noble

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Characteristics of Youth Dating Violence and Risk Factors in Mexico: An Analysis From a National Sample by Arun Kumar Acharya

“… Dating violence is a significant issue affecting today’s youth and can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic, racial, and religious backgrounds, and it occurs in heterosexual, gay, and lesbian relationships. This study examines and identifies the different types of dating violence, and their associated risk factors in Mexico considering the data from a national sample. …”
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‘Queer Villainy’: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House as Testimony to Lesbian Abuse and Love by Deirdre C. Byrne, Nadine Lake

“…Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House (2019), fills a gap in literary representations of lesbian relationships, as well as in representations of DVA between same-sex partners. …”
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Classical Concert Music and Queer Listening by Fred Everett Maus

“…The discontinuity is particularly stark in light of the erotic qualities of music, as described in brilliant work by Susan McClary (Feminine Endings, 1991) and Suzanne Cusick ("On a Lesbian Relationship with Music", 1994). My essay returns to their work, expanding their accounts to consider a broader range of sexual subjectivities, including "bottom" subjectivity as described by Trevor Hoppe and "femme" subjectivity as described by Ann Cvetkovich.…”
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Healing Trauma and Reasserting Identity through Remembrance in Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth by Abdullah Md Abu Shahid

“…In the novel, Maya’s memories of her unrequited lesbian relationship with her beloved Rochel, oppression by the traditional structures of her family and Jewish community, her forced marriage with Yankel, and her being raped by him are responsible for her trauma on a personal level, whereas her forced relocation to South Africa in order to flee from the Holocaust is responsible for her trauma on a communal level. …”
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Introduction to the Analysis of Gender in the ATU 514 Fairy Tale Type on Examples from the Balkans<br>Uvod v analizo spola junakinje pravljičnega tipa ATU 514 na primerih iz Balkan... by Maja Pan

“…We are led to believe that the fairy tale acts restitutively as it resolves the relationship between the protagonist and the princess on two levels: first by sacrificing the protagonist’s sex in favour of “promotion” to the male sex, by which it morally justifies the next move: the re-establishment of the structural male-female couple, thus – another “blessing in disguise” – eliminating the lesbian relationship that was produced this way, to finally remake it into a normative fairy tale as well as a social ideal. …”
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Feasibility of an External Erectile Prosthesis for Transgender Men Who have Undergone Phalloplasty by Elizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, Divya Jolly, MS, Geetika Mehra, MD, Oren Ganor, MD

“…Main Outcome Measure: The primary outcome was whether men found it feasible to use an external penile prosthesis for sexual penetration after phalloplasty – defined as interest in, and willingness to, use the device more than once over the study period; intention to continue using the device on the Erectile Dysfunction Inventory of Treatment Satisfaction (EDITS); and no decrease in relationship satisfaction on the Gay and Lesbian Relationship Satisfaction Scale (GLRSS). The secondary outcome was an increase in sexual or relationship satisfaction with use of the device, defined as a statistically significant increase on either the Quality of Sexual Experience Scale (QSE) or the GLRSS. …”
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