Pub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1177/09593535241267091
Joanne Hunt
Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common to both feminism and (critical, feminist) disability studies. However, feminist literature largely lacks both an appreciation of the gendered, intersectional nature of disability as constituted and propagated by psy, and an exploration of how integrating disability as a category of analysis can strengthen critical feminist endeavours to transform psy. This article seeks to address this gap, espousing a feminist disability studies lens and taking as its subject energy-limiting chronic illnesses that are socially and clinically othered, notably via a strategic positioning of these illnesses as medically unexplained and recoverable through compliance with psy knowledge regimes. After discussing how power-laden gendered, dis/abled, and more fully intersectional constructions of the idealised subject, bolstered by psy–corporate–state agendas relating to welfare reform, have oppressively shaped dominant representations and practices in this arena, I consider how psy (chiefly, psychotherapy) might benefit from integrating thinking from within feminist disability studies. I conclude that feminist disability studies can help transform psy in an emancipatory direction through reimagining disability in a socioculturally and biopolitically cognisant, embodied, and maximally inclusive manner. The case of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting chronic illness exemplifies this assertion.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/09593535241265944
Ásta Jóhannsdóttir, Embla Guðrúnar Ágústsdóttir
Within critical disability research, little attention has been paid to the concept of complaint in relation to disabled people. While the demand for thankfulness has been studied to some extent, it is interesting to investigate how and if the complaints of disabled people are heard. This paper explored disabled people's experiences of expressing complaints within the context of sexuality, and the reaction such complaints stirred. The experiences of marginalised groups are often coloured by microaggressions that are not very visible and are regularly trivialised. Studies have shown that microaggressions are a dominant factor affecting the daily lives of disabled people and are thus important to examine further. The data were collected in 2019 and consisted of five interviews and three focus group meetings with 13 participants. Our findings showed that microaggressions are a leading factor in disabled people's daily lives and that they require constant reaction. One of the manifestations of microaggressions is the idea that disabled people should be grateful; thus, they have little room to complain, make demands, or set boundaries. Therefore, expressions of sexuality and desire are often accompanied by feelings of shame among disabled people.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/09593535241265959
Ioannis Michos, Lia Figgou
LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based in Thessaloniki and Athens were held. Analysis, drawing on critical discursive social psychology, indicated three central arguments. The first prioritizes a homogenizing liberal equality, and approaches differences in activist groups’ objectives as expected and beneficial diversity. The second problematizes (intra- and intergroup) difference-as-diversity as a potential obstacle to group collaboration, drawing attention to power imbalances. The third invokes broader “universal” and “apolitical” rights in order to construct the expansion of LGBTQ+ activist objectives as a necessary condition for inclusive activist action. In the discussion, we consider ways in which different argumentative resources are related to each other and to the ideological dilemmas that constitute the broader social fabric of participants’ argumentation. We also reflect on the rhetorical and social functions and implications of contradictory argumentative patterns, on the challenges they pose to LGBTQ+ movements, as well as on their potential to (dis)empower collaborations and intersectional politics.
{"title":"Constructions of diversity, hierarchies, and identity intersections in LGBTQ+ activists’ interview talk","authors":"Ioannis Michos, Lia Figgou","doi":"10.1177/09593535241265959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241265959","url":null,"abstract":"LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based in Thessaloniki and Athens were held. Analysis, drawing on critical discursive social psychology, indicated three central arguments. The first prioritizes a homogenizing liberal equality, and approaches differences in activist groups’ objectives as expected and beneficial diversity. The second problematizes (intra- and intergroup) difference-as-diversity as a potential obstacle to group collaboration, drawing attention to power imbalances. The third invokes broader “universal” and “apolitical” rights in order to construct the expansion of LGBTQ+ activist objectives as a necessary condition for inclusive activist action. In the discussion, we consider ways in which different argumentative resources are related to each other and to the ideological dilemmas that constitute the broader social fabric of participants’ argumentation. We also reflect on the rhetorical and social functions and implications of contradictory argumentative patterns, on the challenges they pose to LGBTQ+ movements, as well as on their potential to (dis)empower collaborations and intersectional politics.","PeriodicalId":294841,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/09593535241265899
Rebecca A Heslin, S. O’Higgins, Aisling T. O’Donnell
Between 1983 and 2018, approximately 170,000 people journeyed abroad to access abortions outside Ireland due to Ireland having one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. This paper analyses the lived experience of people who made such journeys, contributing to the literature on restricted abortion access and forced abortion travel. Six in-depth interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three master themes were developed. Master Theme 1 speaks to the burden of concealing the experience, and the fear of being discovered and punished that drove the concealment. Master Theme 2 gives insight into overlapping and interwoven challenges of having to leave one's country to access abortion services: lack of access to information, financial burdens, being forced to remain pregnant after making the decision to end that pregnancy, and the impact of all of this against the backdrop of the crisis of unwanted pregnancy. Master Theme 3 speaks to the processing and meaning-making of the journey; how coming into contact with others who had similar stories informed a more compassionate lens on their own stories, and inspired participants, to varying degrees, to become active in the struggle to make Ireland's abortion legislation less restrictive.
{"title":"“We were cast aside”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of abortion journeys from Ireland","authors":"Rebecca A Heslin, S. O’Higgins, Aisling T. O’Donnell","doi":"10.1177/09593535241265899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241265899","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1983 and 2018, approximately 170,000 people journeyed abroad to access abortions outside Ireland due to Ireland having one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. This paper analyses the lived experience of people who made such journeys, contributing to the literature on restricted abortion access and forced abortion travel. Six in-depth interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three master themes were developed. Master Theme 1 speaks to the burden of concealing the experience, and the fear of being discovered and punished that drove the concealment. Master Theme 2 gives insight into overlapping and interwoven challenges of having to leave one's country to access abortion services: lack of access to information, financial burdens, being forced to remain pregnant after making the decision to end that pregnancy, and the impact of all of this against the backdrop of the crisis of unwanted pregnancy. Master Theme 3 speaks to the processing and meaning-making of the journey; how coming into contact with others who had similar stories informed a more compassionate lens on their own stories, and inspired participants, to varying degrees, to become active in the struggle to make Ireland's abortion legislation less restrictive.","PeriodicalId":294841,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"8 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141927796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/09593535241262910
Michelle Botha
In this autoethnographic paper, I present some personal reflections on negotiating tricky identity-related terrain as sociocultural beliefs about disability, femininity, impairment, and sexuality interact with my embodiment as a blind woman. This has primarily to do with being in some ways liberated and in other ways banished from both normative femininity and the gaze. I describe the complicated double-binds in my own experience with seeking belonging, that is, social and sexual legitimacy against the backdrop of a prohibitive gender system rooted in visual culture, which might be resonant for other blind and disabled women. I also consider the implications for blind and disabled women of being positioned as “transcenders” of visual culture and the gender regime. I suggest that, rather than liberation, this positioning might be felt by disabled women as further marginalisation, a banishment from acceptability and legitimacy.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/09593535241262906
Rannveig Ágústa Guðjónsdóttir, K. Berggren
Researchers focusing on fathers’ violence and perpetrator programmes have expressed growing interest in the question of change. Yet, there has been little dialogue in relation to feminist affect theories on change. Drawing on the narratives of eight fathers in Iceland who had been violent against their female partner and/or children, we suggest that attending to comfort and discomfort is central to understanding violent fathers’ process of change. Inspired by feminist theories of affective dissonance, the analysis shows that, on the one hand, fathers avoided dealing with uncomfortable emotions, conversations, and situations in diverse ways, for example, by leaning on women's emotional labour. On the other hand, the fathers also attempted to deal with discomfort, and this was often as part of their decision to seek help, turn to self-reflection, or hold themselves accountable. By foregrounding discomfort in these narratives, this paper provides insights into the possibilities of and hindrances to fathers’ change from perpetrating domestic violence.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-15DOI: 10.1177/09593535241238073
Joshua G. Parmenter, Elizabeth Grace Wong, Najia Sabahat Khan, Lee R. Pradell, Renee V. Galliher
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) live at the intersection of marginalized identities, resulting in unique experiences of exclusion within their various communities. Despite experiences of community exclusion, LGBTQIA+–BIPOC find ways to resist such structures to thrive in the face of adversity and strive for transformative change. The present study uses an intersectional framework to explore LGBTQIA+–BIPOC's experiences with community exclusion and acts of resistance. Fourteen LGBTQIA+–BIPOC participated in semistructured interviews to explore their experiences of exclusion and acts of resistance. Findings supported two broad categories with subthemes: (a) “on the fringes” (i.e., invalidation of LGBTQIA+–BIPOC experiences; White supremacy, colonization, and Western imperialism; “out and proud” dynamics) and (b) resistance: “we’re here, and I’m gonna let you know” (i.e., resisting intersectional oppression; intersectional identity cohesion; coalition building). Utilizing an intersectional framework, we critique larger oppressive structures that disenfranchise LGBTQIA+–BIPOC while offering implications for social justice interventions and transformational change to best serve LGBTQIA+–BIPOC.
{"title":"“Even when I feel alone, I always know I’m not really alone”: An intersectional analysis of LGBTQIA+–BIPOC's experiences of community and resistance","authors":"Joshua G. Parmenter, Elizabeth Grace Wong, Najia Sabahat Khan, Lee R. Pradell, Renee V. Galliher","doi":"10.1177/09593535241238073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241238073","url":null,"abstract":"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) live at the intersection of marginalized identities, resulting in unique experiences of exclusion within their various communities. Despite experiences of community exclusion, LGBTQIA+–BIPOC find ways to resist such structures to thrive in the face of adversity and strive for transformative change. The present study uses an intersectional framework to explore LGBTQIA+–BIPOC's experiences with community exclusion and acts of resistance. Fourteen LGBTQIA+–BIPOC participated in semistructured interviews to explore their experiences of exclusion and acts of resistance. Findings supported two broad categories with subthemes: (a) “on the fringes” (i.e., invalidation of LGBTQIA+–BIPOC experiences; White supremacy, colonization, and Western imperialism; “out and proud” dynamics) and (b) resistance: “we’re here, and I’m gonna let you know” (i.e., resisting intersectional oppression; intersectional identity cohesion; coalition building). Utilizing an intersectional framework, we critique larger oppressive structures that disenfranchise LGBTQIA+–BIPOC while offering implications for social justice interventions and transformational change to best serve LGBTQIA+–BIPOC.","PeriodicalId":294841,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"122 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140977403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-05DOI: 10.1177/09593535241238894
N. Edeh, Patrizia Kokot-Blamey, Sarah Riley
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest employers in the world and relies heavily on Black migrant women. Nonetheless, reports of (gendered) racism persist. This phenomenologically inspired qualitative study shares findings from empirical interview data with female Nigerian doctors and nurses working in the NHS, with a specific focus on how these women cope with the racism and gendered racism they experience in their everyday working lives. The analysis shows the extent to which they perceive the coping strategies available to them to be limited, with problem-based solutions focused on relocating themselves into geographical, professional, or organisational spaces where acute staffing shortages may curb employers’ tendency towards discrimination in recruitment and advancement. Emotion-based strategies employed were often faith-based, or relied on their national identity and understandings of what it means to be Nigerian/a Nigerian woman. The article critically considers the power differentials endemic in employment that limit these women to individualised coping strategies which ultimately result in their isolation, a known stressor itself, creating a self-perpetuating vicious circle of gendered racism.
{"title":"Coping with gendered racism in the British healthcare sector: A feminist and phenomenological approach","authors":"N. Edeh, Patrizia Kokot-Blamey, Sarah Riley","doi":"10.1177/09593535241238894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241238894","url":null,"abstract":"The UK National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest employers in the world and relies heavily on Black migrant women. Nonetheless, reports of (gendered) racism persist. This phenomenologically inspired qualitative study shares findings from empirical interview data with female Nigerian doctors and nurses working in the NHS, with a specific focus on how these women cope with the racism and gendered racism they experience in their everyday working lives. The analysis shows the extent to which they perceive the coping strategies available to them to be limited, with problem-based solutions focused on relocating themselves into geographical, professional, or organisational spaces where acute staffing shortages may curb employers’ tendency towards discrimination in recruitment and advancement. Emotion-based strategies employed were often faith-based, or relied on their national identity and understandings of what it means to be Nigerian/a Nigerian woman. The article critically considers the power differentials endemic in employment that limit these women to individualised coping strategies which ultimately result in their isolation, a known stressor itself, creating a self-perpetuating vicious circle of gendered racism.","PeriodicalId":294841,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"297 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141012581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1177/09593535241242563
Nikki Hayfield, Hannah Moore, Gareth Terry
In recent years, there has been increased cultural interest in perimenopause and menopause. The importance of peri/menopause in many women's lives makes this topic particularly pertinent for feminist psychologists. Some feminist scholars have acknowledged both physical and psychological factors as important aspects of women's experiences within their wider social and cultural contexts. However, consideration of relational aspects during peri/menopause remains sparse. We report our research exploring peri/menopausal women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships. Thematic analysis was used to analyse responses to an online qualitative survey in which 71 mainly British women participated. In our analysis, we discuss the Menopause Sisterhood and how these women described social support as grounded in embodied experiences shared with other women. However, there were tensions concerning partners, whose understanding varied, which we report in the second theme: Accounting for (lack of) partner support: Men as heroes (or as absolved of any blame). We discuss the importance and implications of our findings for feminist scholars and psychologists more widely.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/09593535241242551
Manuel Cárdenas-Castro, Stella Salinero-Rates
Previous research indicates the presence of deeply ingrained gender biases within the health system, resulting in instances of mistreatment and violence against women and sexual dissidents. This study aimed to explore the stories of people assigned female at birth about their experiences of gynecological violence in Chile. Twenty-one women were recruited as participants, and semistructured interviews were conducted. Thematic analysis of the transcribed dialogs was performed, and four themes were developed: legitimization of violence, objectivation and loss of autonomy, transgression of intimacy and fear of abuse, and consequences of violence over time. This article sheds light on the impact and aftermath of gynecological violence among those seeking gynecological services, highlighting the convergence of cultural, institutional, and interpersonal factors that perpetuate this issue.
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