Iranian women’s sexual reconstruction through the internet: Informal education and empowerment

IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Sexualities Pub Date : 2023-10-22 DOI:10.1177/13634607231209736
Tannaz Zargarian
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The emergence of the internet offered a unique space for Iranian women to inquire about their personal autonomy, including sexual autonomy. While the internet accelerated Iranian women’s emancipation from sexual subordination, critical questions concerning the impact of socio-cultural mores on this relatively new experience remain convoluted. Grounded in critical feminist and sexual script theoretical frameworks, this research investigates some Iranian women’s comprehension and experience of sexual autonomy by closely exploring the educational role of the internet on the discourse of sexual autonomy and its interconnection with the Iranian culture of shame and silence. Through semi-structural in-depth interviews and online ethnography, this research investigates how the internet serves as an informal learning tool that disrupts traditional learning and expedites women’s sexual autonomy in both online and offline spaces. Adopting critical thematic analysis, this study determined that the online realm altered the meaning of sexual subordination and led to a reconstruction that shifted the boundaries of shame and silence around sexuality. Through the interaction and interconnection between online and offline spaces, Iranian women problematize the culture of shame and silence through learning, revisiting their existing knowledge, and then silently acting. Therefore, a cultural reconstruction that is gradually redefining sexual scripts is emerging.
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伊朗女性透过网路进行性重建:非正式教育与赋权
互联网的出现为伊朗女性提供了一个独特的空间来询问她们的个人自主权,包括性自主权。虽然互联网加速了伊朗妇女从性从属中解放出来,但社会文化习俗对这一相对较新的经历的影响的关键问题仍然令人费解。本研究以批判女权主义和性剧本理论框架为基础,深入探讨互联网对性自主话语的教育作用,以及互联网与伊朗羞耻感和沉默文化的联系,调查一些伊朗女性对性自主的理解和体验。通过半结构化的深度访谈和在线人种学,本研究调查了互联网如何作为一种非正式学习工具,在在线和离线空间中破坏传统学习并加速女性的性自主。通过批判性的主题分析,本研究确定了网络领域改变了性从属的意义,并导致了一种重构,改变了性的羞耻和沉默的界限。透过线上与线下空间的互动与连结,伊朗女性透过学习、重新检视已有知识,然后默默行动,来解决羞耻感与沉默文化的问题。因此,一种逐渐重新定义性剧本的文化重建正在出现。
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Sexualities
Sexualities SOCIOLOGY-
CiteScore
4.20
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期刊介绍: Consistently one of the world"s leading journals in the exploration of human sexualities within a truly interdisciplinary context, Sexualities publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles that exemplify the very best of current research. It is published six times a year and aims to present cutting-edge debate and review for an international readership of scholars, lecturers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. Sexualities publishes work of an analytic and ethnographic nature which describes, analyses, theorizes and provides a critique on the changing nature of the social organization of human sexual experience in the late modern world.
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