Rethinking women's sexual orientation: An interdisciplinary, relationship-focused approach

By L. A. Peplau. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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An Integrative Paradigm (2005, background): “Since intense female relationships at young ages are part of the socially sanctioned Western cultural model of being female [Peplau, 2001], this cognitive sequence of internal identity exploration is less likely to occur among females.”
Differences between Gay and Lesbian Cohabiting Couples (2003, background): “Because female sexuality is more plastic and responsive to situational factors than male sexuality (Baumeister, 2000; Peplau, 2001), because women have faced the evolutionary challenge of finding mates willing to commit themselves to and to invest resources in relationships (Buss & Schmitt, 1993), b”
Differences Between Partners From Heterosexual, Gay, and Lesbian Cohabiting Couples (2006, background): “The finding that lesbian partners reported less frequent sexual relationsmay result, in part, from the fluid nature of female sexuality (Peplau, 2001) and the diverse ways in which lesbians express physical intimacy (e.g., cuddling, kissing, genital stimulation; Diamant, Lever, & Schuster, 2000).”
A Dual-Identity Framework for Understanding Lesbian Experience (2005, background): “Across time and place, it has been common for women to form loving and erotic relationships with other women (Peplau, 2001).”
Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “Peplau and colleagues called for a new paradigm within psychology to speak better to the experience of same-sexattracted women (e.g. Peplau, 2001; Peplau & Garnets, 2000; Peplau, Spalding, Conley, & Veniegas, 1999).”
The Psychological World of the Gay Teenager:Social Change, Narrative, and “Normality” (2007, background): “…in different regions of the United States or in other societies understand their same-sex desire (e.g., Diamond, 2003a; Diamond and Savin-Williams, 2000; Hammack, 2005; Peplau, 2001; Savin-Williams and Diamond, 2000), we speak broadly of the development of youth with same-sex desire in this paper.”