Femininity Ideology and Sexual Health in Young Women: A focus on Sexual Knowledge, Embodiment, and Agency

Curtin, Nicola; Ward, L. Monique; Merriwether, Ann; Caruthers, Allison

doi:10.1080/19317611.2010.524694

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“…The concept of women's agency is strongly grounded in feminist examinations of power relations (Fadlalla, 2007; Neidell, 1999), and provides an excellent tool for understanding women's responses to reproductive health care after trauma exposure. Agency has been linked to increased family planning use, reproductive health decision-making, and sexual knowledge among women in peacetime settings (Curtin, Ward, & Caruthers, 2011). Agency has also been theorized as a factor associated with mental health and reproductive health in limited studies (Lesch & Kruger, 2004).…”

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Understanding the Effects of Mental Health on Reproductive Health Service Use: A Mixed Methods Approach

Bell

Lori

Redman

et al. 2015

Health Care for Women International

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Appropriate and woman-led health care for displaced women is essential to respecting basic human rights. In this paper, we describe the results of an analysis of the association between mental health and reproductive health service use from a sample of Congolese refugee women residing in short and long term camps in Rwanda, with a post-hoc qualitative potion added to expand upon the data-based results. Our findings suggest that structural factors including health policy initiatives affect or even inhibit individual care choices.

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Section: Agencymentioning

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Understanding the Effects of Mental Health on Reproductive Health Service Use: A Mixed Methods Approach

Bell

Lori

Redman

et al. 2015

Health Care for Women International

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“…High levels of unmitigated communion coupled with high levels of perceived stress have been found to relate to inconsistent male partner condom use in community and college samples of women (Nagurney & Bagwell, 2009). Traditional gender role personality characteristics, such as passivity, and traditional gender role attitudes that limit women’s opportunities relative to men’s may also contribute to women’s inability to advocate for and negotiate male condom use with their partners (Curtin, Ward, Merriwether, & Caruthers, 2011; Impett, Schooler, & Tolman, 2006; Nguyen et al, 2010; Yoder, Perry, & Saal, 2007). …”

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Gender Roles and Mental Health in Women With and at Risk for HIV

Brody

Stokes

Dale

et al. 2014

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Predominantly low-income and African American women from the same community, HIV-infected (n = 100; HIV+) and uninfected (n = 42; HIV−), were assessed on reported gender roles in sexual and other close relationships—including levels of self-silencing, unmitigated communion, and sexual relationship power—at a single recent study visit during 2008–2012. Recent gender roles were investigated in relation to depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life assessed both at a single visit during 2008–2012 and averaged over semiannual visits (for depressive symptoms) and annual visits (for quality of life) occurring between 1994 and 2012. Compared to HIV− women, HIV+ women reported significantly higher levels of several aspects of self-silencing, unmitigated communion, and multi-year averaged depressive symptoms as well as lower levels of sexual relationship power and recent and multi-year averaged quality of life. For both HIV+ and HIV− women, higher self-silencing and unmitigated communion significantly related to recent or multi-year averaged higher depressive symptoms and lower quality of life. Intervention strategies designed to increase self-care and self-advocacy in the context of relationships could potentially minimize depressive symptoms and enhance quality of life in women with and at risk for HIV.

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“…décrire le pouvoir d'agir des femmes et leur possibilité d'adopter une posture de sujet lors d'interactions à caractère sexuel (Attwood 2007;Gill 2008;LeMoncheck 1997). Outre la théorie féministe, c'est particulièrement dans les textes sur la santé sexuelle des adolescentes et des jeunes adultes (Curtin et autres 2011;Lamb 2010) ainsi que dans la psychologie féministe, notamment dans les recherches sur la réception des images médiatiques (Gill 2008;Malson et autres 2011), que l'on trouve une conceptualisation de l'agentivité sexuelle des filles et des femmes. Dans les recherches empiriques, ces études abordent, d'une part, l'autoefficacité sexuelle (Sexual Self-efficacy), soit la capacité d'avoir des relations protégées pour éviter les grossesses non désirées et les infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang, ainsi que, d'autre part, l'assertivité sexuelle, soit la capacité de refuser d'avoir des relations sexuelles et de communiquer ses désirs au partenaire (Curtin et autres 2011 : 49-50).…”

Section: L'agentivité Sexuelle Les Scripts Sexuels Et Les Orientatiounclassified

Les scripts sexuels des femmes de carrière célibataires dans les téléséries québécoises. Études de cas : Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin et C.A.1

Lavigne¹,

Auger²,

Lévy³

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Dans le contexte d'une recherche portant sur les femmes célibataires à Montréal, l'analyse de trois téléséries québécoises mises en ondes par Radio- Canada ayant comme personnage central une femme de carrière célibataire dans la trentaine (Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin et C.A.) a été effectuée afin de dégager les représentations de leur vie sociosexuelle, et ce, à partir du concept d'agentivité sexuelle, de la théorie des scripts de la sexualité et celle des orientations intimes de soi. Les divers scénarios sexuels vécus par les trois personnages, des scripts de rencontre à ceux de rupture, en passant par les types de relations qui y sont rattachés, sont présentés.L'analyse suggère une grande variabilité dans les scripts sexuels féminins et l'adoption de scripts considérés traditionnellement comme masculins : notamment, les femmes prennent souvent l'initiative de la rencontre et des rapports sexuels. Deux des trois personnages féminins étudiés possèdent des caractéristiques d'une orientation intime de soi du type « désir individuel », le troisième personnage présentant une construction de soi du type « réseau sexuel »; cependant, les trois personnages conservent certains aspects d'une orientation intime de soi de la sexualité conjugale. Ces téléséries présentent donc des personnages féminins multipartenaires, sans les confiner dans des rôles de femmes faciles et sans que cet aspect leur porte préjudice, ce qui laisse ainsi suggérer une transformation des représentations de la sexualité des femmes célibataires québécoises.As a part of a larger research project on single women, an analysis was conducted of three television series of Quebec origin whose protagonists were single career women in their thirties (i.e. Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin and C.A.). With sexual agency, sexual script theory (Gagnon and Simon 1973) and Bozon's (2001) intimate orientations as a theoretical framework, representations of the women's sexual lives were identified.The female characters adopted a wide variety of female sexual scripts in addition to some typically masculine scripts. Notably, they often initiated encounters and sexual contact. Two of the female characters showed signs of an “individual desire” intimate orientation, while the remaining character's orientation fit the “sexual network” type. Each nevertheless maintained aspects of a “conjugal sexuality” intimate orientation. While these television series present their female protagonist with multiple partners, they do so without confining them to the role of “easy woman” or other stereotypes. These series suggest that representations of the sexuality of single Quebec women are changing

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Femininity Ideology and Sexual Health in Young Women: A focus on Sexual Knowledge, Embodiment, and Agency

Cited by 128 publications

References 64 publications

Understanding the Effects of Mental Health on Reproductive Health Service Use: A Mixed Methods Approach

Understanding the Effects of Mental Health on Reproductive Health Service Use: A Mixed Methods Approach

Gender Roles and Mental Health in Women With and at Risk for HIV

Les scripts sexuels des femmes de carrière célibataires dans les téléséries québécoises. Études de cas : Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin et C.A.1

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