Canadian Sex Research Forum 2022

“You can’t win”: Examining femmephobia, gender-policing, and the gender-tightrope that women walk

Melanie Gunn & Rhea Ashley Hoskin

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“I stopped wearing dresses, even though I always loved them”: Examining women’s responses to femmephobic experiences”.

Julia, G. Gillespie, Toni Serafini, & Rhea Ashley Hoskin

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Canadian Sex Research Forum 2021

Macdonald, A., Hoskin, R.A., & Price, L. (2021, October). Adult sexual assault perpetrated against lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women: Considering gendered assumptions and perpetrator characteristics. Poster presented at the Canadian Sex Research Forum.

Gunn, M., Hoskin, R.A., & Newman, R. (2021, October). Gender balancing acts: Illuminating anti-femininity as an under-explored experience of women’s gender regulation. Poster presented at the Canadian Sex Research Forum.