Farr Daniel
Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY, New York, USA.
J Lesbian Stud. 2011;15(4):493-506. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2011.532035.
This article examines online women-seeking-women (WSW) personal ads that engage with tomboy identities and ideologies. This research demonstrates the importance of body and physicality among lesbian personal ads and the diversity of women using online personal ads. The meaning of "tomboy" in the language of WSW personal ads suggests major themes of use including: as an intermediate identity distinct within a butch/femme dichotomy, as a tempering agent for traditional femininity, as a fluid construct of personality, physicality, and body, as an understood descriptor of a particular aesthetic or physicality, and as synonymous with butch. To be a tomboy is to be simultaneously understood as a social stereotype, but also as complex, fluid, and of multiple meanings.
本文研究了涉及女同性恋身份和意识形态的在线女性寻找女性（WSW）征友广告。这项研究证明了身体和肉体特征在女同性恋征友广告中的重要性，以及使用在线征友广告的女性的多样性。在WSW征友广告语言中，“女同性恋者”的含义暗示了主要的使用主题，包括：作为在男性化/女性化二分法中独特的中间身份，作为传统女性气质的缓和因素，作为个性、肉体特征和身体的灵活建构，作为对特定审美或肉体特征的公认描述，以及与男性化同义。成为女同性恋者意味着既要被同时理解为一种社会刻板印象，又要被理解为复杂、灵活且具有多重含义。
