Positioning Identities : Lesbians' and Gays' Experiences with Mental Health Care
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1598742922
ISBN-13
9781598742923
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint
Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 2006
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
249 grams
Product Classification:
Gay & Lesbian studiesMental health services
Ksh 5,400.00
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Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.
How do lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts? How do they manage the institutional homophobia and heterosexism embedded in health care practice and practitioners? Using interpretive phenomenology, Hazel Platzer overturns limiting dualisms to describe the ways in which lesbians and gays are silenced and pathologized in their mental health care encounters, how they resist, and how their resistance can restrict access to care. She highlights the difficulties of researching a sensitive topic with a relatively “hidden” population, and devises innovative techniques for handling bias and a multi-methods approach to the phenomenological study of experience and identities. She then offers proactive steps toward creating a health care environment in which lesbian and gay identities are normalized, improving both access to and quality of health care.
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