Wood Jill M, Mansfield Phyllis Kernoff, Koch Patricia Barthalow
Women's Studies Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Qual Health Res. 2007 Feb;17(2):189-200. doi: 10.1177/1049732306297415.
The purpose of this feminist grounded theory study was to understand the meaning and experience of postmenopausal women's sexual desire. Data collection from 22 postmenopausal women who were ongoing participants of the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health occurred via audiotaped, telephone-based, semistructured interviews. Women's descriptions of their sexual needs and desires led to the discovery of the core category, negotiating sexual agency, which refers to women's ability to act on behalf of their sexual needs, desires, and wishes. Women negotiated their sexual agency within three main domains (or axial codes): their own sexual self, their partners, and the medical system. An important finding was women's internalization of sociocultural assumptions that privilege their male partners' sexual needs over their own. The findings of this study, especially the contexts in which women negotiate their sexual agency, are important for women, women's health care providers, and women's life partners to understand.
这项女性主义扎根理论研究的目的是了解绝经后女性性欲的意义和体验。通过基于电话的录音半结构化访谈,从22名正在参与女性健康TREMIN研究项目的绝经后女性中收集数据。女性对其性需求和欲望的描述导致了核心类别的发现,即协商性自主权,这指的是女性代表自己的性需求、欲望和愿望采取行动的能力。女性在三个主要领域(或轴心编码)内协商她们的性自主权:她们自己的性自我、她们的伴侣以及医疗系统。一个重要的发现是,社会文化假设将男性伴侣的性需求置于女性自身之上,而女性将这些假设内化了。这项研究的结果,尤其是女性协商其性自主权的背景,对于女性、女性医疗保健提供者和女性的生活伴侣来说,理解起来很重要。