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Health & health care for lesbian, bisexual and same sex attracted women

 
 
 
DIALOG PhD project

McNair Publications

 

Ruth McNair has published in a range of areas including lesbian health, lesbian parenting and fertility, sexual health, and interprofessional education. The papers relevant to the DIALOG project are listed here, with links to PDF versions of the paper where available.


Lesbian Health Care Issues

McNair RP, Anderson S, Mitchell A. Addressing health inequalities in Victorian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 2001: 11(1): 32-38.
McNair Health Inequalities 2001 [pdf]

Hillier L, De Visser R, Kavanagh A, McNair RP. The association between sexual orientation and licit and illicit drug use in young Australian women. Medical J of Australia 2003; 179: 326-327.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_06_150903/letters_150903_fm-4.html
MJA subst use letter_150903 [pdf]

Hillier L, De Visser R, Kavanagh A, McNair R. The drug use patterns of heterosexual and non-heterosexual young women: data from the Women’s Health Australia Study. In Riggs, D.W. & Walker, G.A. (Eds.) Out in the Antipodes: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychology. Perth: Brightfire Press, 2004.
http://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/members/post-grads/damienriggs/antipodes.htm

McNair R, Kavanagh A, Agius P, Tong B. The mental health status of young adult and mid-life non-heterosexual Australian women. Aust NZ J Public Health 2005; 29: 265-71.
McNair etal Mental health 2005 [pdf]


McNair RP & Thomacos N. Not yet equal. Report of the VGLRL same sex relationships survey 2005. Melbourne: Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby.
www.vglrl.org.au
McNair & Thomacos Not Yet Equal 2005 [pdf]


McNair R. Risks and prevention of sexually transmissible infections among women who have sex with women. Sexual Health, 2005; 2 (4): 209-217.
www.publish.csiro.au/nid/164/paper/SH04046.htm
McNair STI Risks and Prevention WSW 2005 [pdf]


McNair R, Gleitzman M, Hillier L. Challenging research. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 2006.
McNair, Gleitzman, Hillier Challenging research GLIP 2006 [pdf]

McNair R. Book Review on Dolan, K. A. Lesbian women and sexual health. The social construction of risk and susceptibility. New York: Haworth Press, 2005. Sexual Health 2006, 3: 204-205.
McNair Book Review Sexual Health 2006 [pdf]

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Lesbian Parenting

McNair R, Dempsey D, Wise S, Perlesz A. Lesbian parenting: issues, strengths and challenges. Family Matters No. 63, 2002, pp 40-49.
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm2002/fm63.html
McNair Family Matters 2002 [pdf]

McNair RP. Lesbian parenthood: an imaginative fertility. In Kirkman, M., Maher, J-M., & Souter, K.T. (Eds), The fertile imagination: narratives of reproduction (special book issue), Meridian, 2002; 18 (2): 267-287. ISBN 0957897111,
McNair Lesb parent chapter 2002 [pdf]

McNair RP and Dempsey D. Family formation and women’s roles. AIFS Conference Feb 2003. http://www.aifs.org.au/institute/afrc8/mcnair.pdf
McNair family formation 2003 [pdf]

Perlesz A and McNair R. Challenges and Strengths for lesbian parented families. AIFS Conference Feb 2003. http://www.aifs.org.au/institute/afrc8/perlesz.pdf
Perlesz & McNair Strengths and challenges 2003 [pdf]

Perlesz A, McNair R. Lesbian parenting: insider’s voices. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 2004; 25 (2): 129-140.
Perlesz McNair Insiders Voices 2004 [pdf]

McNair R. Outcomes for children born of assisted reproductive technology in a diverse range of families. Occasional paper commissioned by the Victorian Law Reform Commission, August 2004. ISBN 0 9751497 6 8. Available at: www.lawreform.vic.gov.au
McNair Outcomes for children VLRC 2004 [pdf]

McNair R. From GP to political activist for the New Family. In H. G. Jones & M. Kirkman (Eds.), Sperm Wars: the rights and wrongs of reproduction (pp. 227-241). Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 2005.
McNair Sperm Wars chapter 2005 [pdf]

Perlesz A, Brown R, McNair R, Lindsay J, Pitts M, de Vaus D. Lesbian family disclosure: authenticity and safety within private and public domains. Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review 2006; 7(1): 54-65.
Perlesz et al Authenticity and Safety LGPR 2006 [pdf]

Perlesz A, Brown R, Lindsay J, McNair R, de Vaus D, Pitts M. Family in transition: Parents, children and grandparents in lesbian families give meaning to ‘doing family’. Journal of Family Therapy, 2006
Perlesz et al Family in Transition JOFT 2006 [pdf]

Lindsay L, Perlesz A, Brown R, McNair R, de Vaus D and Pitts M. Stigma or Respect: Lesbian-parented families negotiating the school setting. Sociology, 2006
Lindsay et al 2006, Stigma and Respect [pdf]

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Lesbian and Health Care Providers

McNair RP. Lesbian Sexuality: Do GPs contribute to lesbian invisibility and ill health? Australian Family Physician 2000; 29 (6): 514-516.
McNair Lesb and GP AFP 2000 [pdf]

McNair RP. Outing lesbian health in medical education. In Women and Health, special edition on gender and medical education, Haworth Press, 2003; 37 (4): 89-103.
McNair Outing Lesb Health in Med Ed 03 [pdf]

McNair R. Sexuality sexual history taking; lesbian health: STIs, Pap tests, fertility (within various chapters)., in O’Connor V & Kovacs G (eds), Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, pages 9, 65-6, 92-97, 433-4, 465-6.
http://academic.cambridge.edu.au/result.asp?isbn=0521818931

McNair RP. Lesbian health inequalities: a cultural minority issue for health professionals. MJA 2003; 178: 643-645.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/178_12_160603/mcn10852_fm.html
McNair Inequalities and lesbians MJA 2003 [pdf]

McNair R. Lesbianism and bisexual women’s sexuality (Chapter 24). In Textbook: Sexual Health Medicine. Editors: Darren Russell, David Bradford and Christopher Fairley. IP Communications: Melbourne, 2005. ISBN: 0-9578617-8-8.
http://www.ipcommunications.com.au/iphealf.html.
McNair Lesb Sexuality chapter 2005 [pdf]

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For information about this page, contact: Dr Ruth McNair
Contact email address: r.mcnair@unimelb.edu.au
Department homepage: www.gp.unimelb.edu.au
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