Dawn M. Szymanski | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Academic background | |
Education | BA, Psychology and Sociology, 1989, State University of New York at Fredonia MS, Agency Counseling, 1990, Indiana State University Ed.S., PhD, Counseling Psychology, 2001, Georgia State University |
Thesis | Lesbian internalized homophobia in relation to same-sex relationships, feminist attitudes, and coping resources (2001) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Tennessee University of Missouri–St. Louis |
Dawn Marie Szymanski (born 1967) is an American psychologist. She is a Full professor and Editor-In-Chief of the Society for the Psychology of Women's (Division 35 of the American Psychological Association) journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Szymanski was born in 1967. [1] She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology from State University of New York at Fredonia. From there,Szymanski enrolled at Indiana State University for her Master's degree and Georgia State University for her PhD in Counseling Psychology. [2]
Upon receiving her PhD,Szymanski became an Adjunct professor at Georgia School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. She left after one year to accept an assistant professor position at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. [2] While working in their community counseling program,Szymanski authored Relationship quality and domestic violence in women's same-sex relationships:The role of minority stress [3] and Does Internalized Heterosexism Moderate the Link Between Heterosexist Events and Lesbians' Psychological Distress? [4] As a result of her research,she received three Psychotherapy with Women awards from the American Psychological Association in 1999,2002,and 2005. [5]
At the beginning of the 2006 academic year,Szymanski left the University of Missouri–St. Louis to accept an assistant professor and Interim Co-Director position in the University of Tennessee-Knoxville's (UTK) department of psychology. [6] During her tenure at UTK,Szymanski's research focused on developing multicultural-feminist counseling psychology theories and the impact of external and internalized oppression on psychosocial health. [7] In 2009,she received UK's 2009 Chancellor's Honors LGBT Ally Research Award [8] and American Psychological Association (APA) Emerging Leader for Women in Psychology Award. [9] Szymanski was also appointed a consulting editor for the Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) and eventually promoted to associate editor. [10] Szymanski was promoted to a tenured associate professor in UTK's Department of Psychology in 2010 [2] and earned their Angie Warren Perkins Award. [11] She was also elected a fellow of the APA's Division 44,the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,and Transgender Issues. [7] Following her promotion,Szymanski received the APA's Outstanding Major Contribution Award in the Counseling Psychologist for Sexual Objectification of Women for 2012 [12] and was elected the APA's Woman of the Year. [5]
At the beginning of 2015,Szymanski began to focus on Breastaurants,sexually objectifying environments,and their long-term impact on women's mental and physical health. She co-wrote an article on The Conversation which detailed the link between negative aspects of waitressing at breastaurants and negative emotions such as anxiety,anger,sadness,depressed mood,confusion,and degradation. [13] This led to the publication of a study in 2017 titled Sexually Objectifying Environments:Power,Rumination,and Waitresses’Anxiety and Disordered Eating. Along with co-author Renee Mikorski,Szymanski found that women who work in breastaurants are at higher risk for anxiety and eating disorders. [14] [15] As a result of her "outstanding contributions in advancing lesbian,bisexual,and transgender women's psychology through research,teaching,practice,and/or activism," she received the APA's 2017 Laura Brown Award. [16]
In 2019,Szymanski was appointed the Editor-In-Chief of the Society for the Psychology of Women's (Division 35 of the American Psychological Association) journal,Psychology of Women Quarterly. [17]
Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. Objectification more broadly means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is most commonly examined at the level of a society,but can also refer to the behavior of individuals and is a type of dehumanization.
Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being bisexual. Similarly to homophobia,it refers to hatred and prejudice specifically against those identified or perceived as being in the bisexual community. It can take the form of denial that bisexuality is a genuine sexual orientation,or of negative stereotypes about people who are bisexual. Other forms of biphobia include bisexual erasure.
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes,bias,and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships. According to Elizabeth Cramer,it can include the belief that all people are or should be heterosexual and that heterosexual relationships are the only norm and therefore superior.
In social philosophy,objectification is the act of treating a person as an object or a thing. It is part of dehumanization,the act of disavowing the humanity of others. Sexual objectification,the act of treating a person as a mere object of sexual desire,is a subset of objectification,as is self-objectification,the objectification of one's self. In Marxism,the objectification of social relationships is discussed as "reification".
In social justice theory,internalized oppression is a recognized understanding in which an oppressed group accepts the methods and incorporates the oppressive message of the oppressing group against their own best interest. Rosenwasser (2002) defines it as believing,adopting,accepting,and incorporating the negative beliefs provided by the oppressor as the truth.
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian,gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt,prejudice,aversion,hatred or antipathy,may be based on irrational fear and may sometimes be attributed to religious beliefs.
Gregory M. Herek is a researcher,author,and professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis (UCD). He has conducted extensive research on prejudice against sexual minorities,and coined the term sexual prejudice as a replacement for homophobia to describe this phenomenon. Herek argued that using the term homophobia incorrectly assumes that negative responses to lesbian,gay,and bisexual people are founded in pathological,irrational fear,whereas psychological research indicates they are more accurately regarded as a form of prejudice. Herek is an openly and prominent gay psychologist. Herek is considered one of the most influential scholars of sexual minorities.
Internalized sexism is a form of sexist behavior and attitudes enacted by women toward themselves or other women and girls. Internalized sexism is a form of internalized oppression,which "consists of oppressive practices that continue to make the rounds even when members of the oppressor group are not present." Internalized sexism can have a range of effects on women and girls such as problems with mental health and body image. Modes of internalization of sexism include early childhood inculturation and consumption of media,while language can also moderate power imbalances between groups and perpetuate internalized sexism.
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Domestic violence within lesbian relationships is the pattern of violent and coercive behavior in a female same-sex relationship wherein a lesbian or other non-heterosexual woman seeks to control the thoughts,beliefs,or conduct of her female intimate partner. In the case of multiple forms of domestic partner abuse,it is also referred to as lesbian battering.
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