| 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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