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Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life

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Drawing on a qualitative study of 15 lesbian couples, with data from couple and individual interviews for each (45 interviews in total), this chapter explores how lesbians form their relationships and develop their notion of family. Participants were aged between 28 and 40 and most had attended higher education. At the time of the interviews, the length of relationships averaged seven years, varying from four months to 16 years. Most couples were living together, while two were temporarily in long-distance relationships. Individual interviews focused on personal sexual stories, how lesbians developed their sexual identities in various social settings and the ways they negotiated their sexuality with their families of origin. Couple interviews focused on relationship histories and the ways they committed to and conducted their relationships.

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Pai, I.EY. (2017). Methodology. In: Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life. Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4005-4_3

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