The University of Queensland, Australia.
J Health Psychol. 2018 Feb;23(2):229-239. doi: 10.1177/1359105316637588. Epub 2016 Mar 23.
We present a thematic discourse analysis of 94 Australian women's written comments about women's presumed dissatisfaction with their genital appearance. Two themes emerged: 'from natural to normal' and 'the difficulty of resistance'. In the first theme, participants discuss genital dissatisfaction with reference to hegemonic constructions of femininity and to postfeminist, neoliberal discourses that position the natural female body as inadequate, with beauty practices necessary to achieve acceptability. The second theme addresses the difficulty of challenging this positioning, referencing discourses that position the vagina as unpleasant and discussion of it as taboo. We consider implications of these constructions for women's well-being.
我们对 94 名澳大利亚女性关于女性对生殖器外观不满的假设的书面评论进行了主题话语分析。出现了两个主题：“从自然到正常”和“反抗的困难”。在第一个主题中，参与者讨论了生殖器不满，提到了女性气质的霸权建构以及后女权主义、新自由主义的话语，这些话语将自然的女性身体定位为不充分的，需要进行美容实践才能达到可接受性。第二个主题涉及到挑战这种定位的困难，提到了将阴道定位为不愉快的话语，并讨论了将其视为禁忌。我们考虑了这些结构对女性福祉的影响。
