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This study was designed to investigate accounts of tomboyism cessation and continuation in adolescence in the narratives of a small sample of adult, working and lower-middle class, New Jersey-area lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women who identified as childhood tomboys. Study participants discussed several reasons for ceasing and continuing tomboyism in adolescence, including maturation, heterosexual...
To illuminate questions of sex/gender/sexual conflation the researcher focused on the relationship between reported tomboyism and lesbianism. Narratives of childhood and adolescence were collected from 32 women who were grouped into four gender/sexual status combinations: “lesbian/bisexual butch,” “straight butch,” “lesbian/bisexual femme,” and “straight femme.” The effects of participants’ sexual...
Building on insights from Zerubavel's (1991) version of cognitive sociology and Gagnon and Simon's (1974) sexual scripting theory, this study describes a ''cognitive scripting'' model of identity, outlining three ideal typical cultural scenarios of sexual identification as an example. Employing a variety of data sources--including participant observation, informal interviews, and popular and scholarly...
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