| Autor: |
Simone M; Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Askew AJ; Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, CA, USA., Beccia AL; Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA., Cusack CE; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA., Pisetsky EM; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Culture, health & sexuality [Cult Health Sex] 2024 Jan; Vol. 26 (1), pp. 108-125. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 31. |
| DOI: |
10.1080/13691058.2023.2189931 |
| Abstrakt: |
This exploratory study aimed to describe the lived experiences of queer women affected by eating and weight-related concerns. Qualitative data from young queer women ( n = 105; Age = 23.6 ± 3.4 years) with eating and weight-related concerns in response to open-ended questions related to the influence of gender identity and body image on weight concern, behaviours, and perception were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Nine themes were created to describe participants' experiences: (1) compensation for other internalised stigma, (2) to suppress body parts that can be gendered or sexualised, (3) comparisons to romantic partners' bodies, (4) media representations, (5) queer signalling, (6) queerness as protective, (7) gender expression and dysphoria, (8) societal expectations of women's bodies, and (9) internalisation of body/beauty ideals. Seven sub-themes were created to represent beauty ideals for specific subcultural communities (e.g. femme, butch). Findings suggest that queer women attribute individual, interpersonal and social factors to weight concerns, behaviours and perceptions. Findings highlight how complex tensions between the beauty/body ideals experienced in cisheteronormative and queer spaces influence eating and weight concerns among queer women. Gender, sexual orientation and subcultural ideals intersect in important ways, and may be useful to consider when screening, treating and preventing eating and weight concerns among queer women. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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