Gnaim-Mwassi Nora, Avieli Hila, Band-Winterstein Tova
Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging, Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Department of Criminology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2024 Mar-May;36(2):117-147. doi: 10.1080/08946566.2024.2331503. Epub 2024 Apr 2.
The present study uses the life-course and intersectionality perspectives to explore the meaning that aging Arab women attribute to their lived experiences of life-long sexual abuse in the shadow of engaging in prostitution. Interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the narratives of 10 older Arab women in Israel who were engaged in prostitution. Four themes emerged: experiencing childhood in the shadow of sexual abuse, becoming a prostitute, being entrapped in prostitution, and settling accounts with the native culture. Women aging in prostitution experience a harsh reality of abuse and loss. The present study points to multiple channels of abuse throughout the life course, from childhood until old age.
本研究运用生命历程和交叉性视角，探讨阿拉伯老年女性如何看待她们在从事卖淫活动背景下长期遭受性虐待的生活经历所蕴含的意义。采用解释现象学分析方法，对以色列10名从事卖淫活动的老年阿拉伯女性的叙述进行分析。研究得出了四个主题：在性虐待阴影下度过童年、沦为妓女、深陷卖淫困境以及与本土文化清算。从事卖淫活动的老年女性经历着虐待和丧失的残酷现实。本研究指出了从童年到老年整个生命历程中存在的多种虐待途径。
