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The Mid‐life Transition to Lesbian: Expanding Consciousness of Women
Author(s) -
Wolfe Paula F.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.1998.9.4.49
Subject(s) - lesbian , sexual orientation , premise , consciousness , preference , transition (genetics) , psychology , identity (music) , gender studies , sexual life , sexual identity , coming out , social psychology , sociology , human sexuality , medicine , art , aesthetics , philosophy , gynecology , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , economics , gene , microeconomics
This paper reports a study focusing on the transition of women who changed their sexual orientation during the mid‐life period. It is my premise that these midlife women, by changing their sexual identity to lesbian, also changed cultural systems from heterosexual to lesbian. One finding of the study is the development of an expanding consciousness of and about women by the women who later made a sexual preference transition.