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An Examination of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image: Does Women’s Sexual Identity Make a Difference? (2014)
Journal Article
Huxley, C. J., Halliwell, E., & Clarke, V. (2015). An Examination of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image: Does Women’s Sexual Identity Make a Difference?. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 39(3), 337-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684314554917

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. According to the tripartite influence model of body image, appearance pressures from family, friends, partners, and the media lead to body dissatisfaction and restrained eating behaviours. There is strong support for thi... Read More about An Examination of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image: Does Women’s Sexual Identity Make a Difference?.

Resisting and conforming to the 'Lesbian Look': The importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women (2014)
Journal Article
Huxley, C., Clarke, V., & Halliwell, E. (2014). Resisting and conforming to the 'Lesbian Look': The importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 24(3), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2161

Appearance is one way in which lesbian and bisexual identities and affiliation to lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) subculture can be demonstrated. 'Butch' and 'androgynous' styles have been used by lesbian women to communicate a non-heterosexual identity... Read More about Resisting and conforming to the 'Lesbian Look': The importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women.

Bisexual women's understandings of social marginalisation: 'The heterosexuals don't understand US but nor do the lesbians' (2014)
Journal Article
Hayfield, N., Clarke, V., & Halliwell, E. (2014). Bisexual women's understandings of social marginalisation: 'The heterosexuals don't understand US but nor do the lesbians'. Feminism and Psychology, 24(3), 352-372. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353514539651

Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified bisexual women, this paper contributes to the limited psychological literature on bisexual women by exploring their experiences of social marginalisation. These (mainly white and middle class) British bis... Read More about Bisexual women's understandings of social marginalisation: 'The heterosexuals don't understand US but nor do the lesbians'.