Asian Interest

**Part I: Redefining the Problem**

**Introduction**
– Overview
– Terms and Definitions

**The Etiological Question**
– The Biological Argument
– Methodological Considerations
– The Psychoanalytic Argument
– The Socialization Argument
– The Sociocultural Response

**Sex Roles, Androgyny, and Mental Health**
– Concepts and Linkages
– Sex-Role Conformity versus Nonconformity: Comparative Outcomes
– Androgyny and Lesbian Women

**Stratification and Exclusion**
– Minority Status of Women
– Rationale for Minority Exclusion
– Social and Economic Exclusion of Lesbian Women

**Part II: Minority Stress: Theoretical and Empirical Model**

**The Theory of Minority Stress**
– Overview of Stress Theory
– Minority Status as Stressor
– Minority Stress and Problems in Measurement

**Stress-Response Variables among Lesbian Women**
– Stress Indexes
– Hypotheses
– Factors Associated with Negative and Positive Outcomes
– Need for Further Research

**Coping Resources**
– Defining Coping
– Stress-Mediating Resources
– Individual Responses and Minority-Group Patterns
– Model for Analysis of Minority-Stress Variables

**Part III: Redefining Self, Group, and Social Context**

**Identity Conflicts, Cognitive Dissonance, and Resolution**
– Faulty Premises and Self-Concept
– ‘Personal’ Identity versus ‘Lesbian’ Identity
– Reassessing Social Reality

**Intragroup Differences**
– Group Identity and Class Differences
– Upward and Downward Mobility
– Collective Diversity

**Social Disclosure**
– Stress of Disclosure versus Nondisclosure
– Variables in Disclosure Decisions
– Disclosure: The Personal Becomes Political