Department of Sociology, California State University-Fresno, Fresno, California, USA.
J Homosex. 2010;57(9):1158-73. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2010.508327.
Comparisons of a popular lesbian lifestyle magazine to a popular heterosexual women's magazine show that lesbian-controlled media do indeed expand representation when it comes to weight, age, and degree of femininity/masculinity, but not in terms of racial representation. An examination of the textual material and visual images also shows that the lesbian publication gives women a more active role, while the heterosexual magazine depicts females as more passive. However, the evidence also shows that the lesbian and heterosexual magazines have similar rates of objectification, but substantively, the lesbian magazine is less severe in degree of objectification.
将流行的女同性恋生活方式杂志与流行的异性恋女性杂志进行比较后发现，女同性恋控制的媒体在体重、年龄和女性气质/男性气质的程度方面确实扩大了代表性，但在种族代表性方面却没有。对文本材料和视觉图像的审查还表明，女同性恋出版物赋予了女性更积极的角色，而异性恋杂志则将女性描绘得更加消极。然而，证据也表明，女同性恋和异性恋杂志的物化程度相似，但在质的方面，女同性恋杂志的程度较轻。
