TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating sexual agency in marriage : the experience of migrant and refugee women
AU - Hawkey, Alexandra J.
AU - Ussher, Jane M.
AU - Perz, Janette
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In this study, adult migrant and refugee women's negotiation of sexual agency in the context of marriage is explored. In Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada, 78 semistructured individual interviews, and 15 focus groups, comprised of 82 participants, were conducted with women who had recently migrated from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and South America. Women's negotiation of sexual agency was evident with respect to husband choice, disclosure of sexual desire, pleasure, pain, and sexual consent. While some participants took up subjugated sexual subject positions reflecting dominant cultural or religious discourses, many women also resisted these discourses to enact sexual agency.
AB - In this study, adult migrant and refugee women's negotiation of sexual agency in the context of marriage is explored. In Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada, 78 semistructured individual interviews, and 15 focus groups, comprised of 82 participants, were conducted with women who had recently migrated from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and South America. Women's negotiation of sexual agency was evident with respect to husband choice, disclosure of sexual desire, pleasure, pain, and sexual consent. While some participants took up subjugated sexual subject positions reflecting dominant cultural or religious discourses, many women also resisted these discourses to enact sexual agency.
KW - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW - Vancouver (B.C.)
KW - marriage
KW - sex
KW - women immigrants
KW - women refugees
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:51689
U2 - 10.1080/07399332.2019.1566334
DO - 10.1080/07399332.2019.1566334
M3 - Article
SN - 0739-9332
VL - 40
SP - 870
EP - 897
JO - Health Care for Women International
JF - Health Care for Women International
IS - 45542
ER -