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The postmodern theoretical questioning of such categorizations as “gay” or “lesbian” raises difficult theoretical …
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Few economists work on issues of sexual orientation despite cultural and political changes which have spawned work in other social sciences and the humanities. Barriers to work in this area include discrimination against sexual minorities, the lack of interest and knowledge about sexual...
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Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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Health researchers engaged in the project of identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) health as a distinct … concepts of intersectionality: methodological, structural and political to explore how the meanings of being lesbian may be … permeated by class and gender and how racism and heterosexism intersect in the lives of black and minority ethnic gay men and …
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Instead of simply mirroring heterosexual families, lesbian and gay families often consist of extended family webs …
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Returning to a question raised by M. V. Lee Badgett in the first issue of Feminist Economics, this paper traces the persistence of heteronormativity in feminist economics to assumptions that kinship is organized around conjugal bonds. These assumptions let “the family” stand automatically...
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Lesbian and gay sociology has witnessed a reflexive turn in recent years, which emphasises choice, self-creation and …, Brian Heaphy argued that such accounts of lesbian and gay reflexivity are partial and fail to take account of the ways in …
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)Populations. …
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insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …
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on services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. …
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