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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"sexual agency"”.
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Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency
… qualitative study examined how 14 young women's sexual desire and agency was influenced by the messages communicated from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Previous research results were supported, such as: parents do not communicate about sex frequently, or only …
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The Sexual Agency of Adolescent Girls: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago
… their capacity to conceptualize and/or enact sexual desire to develop their own sense of agency. Using Trinidad and Tobago (TandT) as a case study, it examines whether attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors pertaining to sexual agency are influenced by socioeconomic factors or key life events, …
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The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
… white males controlling black female sexuality. Most of the female authors in this study offer formal solutions to the elimination of gender oppression in the aesthetic realm, solutions that imagine alternative communities where female sexual agency is an ideological position.
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"Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction
… that explores the interrelations between power, agency, consent, and education, and lays bare the ways in which societal roles and expectations are reinforced in damaging ways. This thesis aims to prove that Haywood’s repetition of central motifs—including the continued tension between resisting …
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No right to sext? A critical examination of media and legal debates about teenage girls' sexual agency in the digital age
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What are we missing? a qualitative exploration of sexual agency and the related behaviours of AGYW in two HIV interventions in South Africa.
… less explored areas within lived experience of sexual agency and subsequent behaviour choices may be contributing to the sustained incidence but may be less understood due to a lack of research that adopts a lens prioritising this focus. The legacy of colonial history in the study of sexuality …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… The first two chapters will focus on sapphic sexual initiations and the implications of female same-sex behavior and female sexual agency in conservative texts. The first chapter focuses on Henry Fielding's The Female Husband, and the perceived threat that female appropriation of masculine …
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Sexual Well-Being in Single, Sexually Active College Females: A Matter of Agency and Openness
This study explored multiple predictors of sexual well-being in a sample of 253 single, sexually active undergraduate females at a public Mid-Atlantic university. Several factors were identified from past research that might impact sexual well-being: casual sex, sexual agency, sexual attitudes, and …
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Let’s Talk About Sex: Sexual Ethics, Agency, and Justice Beyond Consent
This dissertation is about sexual pleasure and good, ethical sex. It is also about the ways women’s pleasure is routinely marginalized in (cis)heterosex, and the gendered and heteronormative social norms and scripts that lead to such routine marginalization. Through the lens of pleasure, this …
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Female sexuality, taste and respectability: an analysis of transatlantic media discourse surrounding Hollywood glamour and film star pin-ups during WWII.
… varied and nuanced discourse surrounding female sexuality in circulation in Britain during this era and exploring the translation, understanding and acceptance of American mores when such products are imported into differing cultural contexts. Informed by Bourdieu’s theorisations surrounding …
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Everyday Lived-Experiences and the Domain of the Sexual As Explored By Four Physically Disabled Women
… and how these women came to view themselves as sexual beings. Using an intersectional analysis and in-depth interviews, it examines these women's perceptions of expectations of normalcy in regard to life style, body image, and sexual practices, especially the expectations of their able-bodied …
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Deconstructing sex: an in-depth, qualitative exploration of women’s sexual experiences and difficulties
Epidemiological research on sexual difficulties in women has reported high rates of sexual problems and dissatisfaction across the lifespan. Nevertheless, feminist scholars and social science researchers argue that an absence of research exploring women’s subjective interpretations of their …
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… focuses on anxieties concerning young women’s sexual agency in Twelfth Night, Pericles, and The Two Noble Kinsmen; the dangers of maternal minds and bodies in Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Winter’s Tale; and the disruptive potential of elderly women’s storytelling in The Merry …
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Women who buy sex in Australia: From social representations to lived experiences
… sex industry and social narrative about female sexual agency. Until now there is very little empirical evidence of women buying sex outside the field of female sex tourism. This thesis aims to address empirical shortfalls regarding women buying sex, explore heteronormative roles of gender and …
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Exploring self-compassion: an action research study with women who have been sexually abused as children #wearenotalone
… together eight women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) to explore together, as co-researchers, the concept of self-compassion. CSA is recognised to provoke feelings of intense shame (Negrao, Bonanno, Noll, Putman, & Trickett, 2005) leading to feelings of worthlessness and …
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Heterosexual penile/anal intercourse and HIV in five sub-Saharan African countries
… Africa is understood to be primarily 'sexually transmitted'. The majority of HIV prevention efforts in the region have focused on 'heterosexual sex' as the key transmission vector, without defining what 'heterosexual sex' refers to. Penile-anal intercourse (PAI) has the highest per act …
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
… narrative suppresses the account of female sexual agency to focus on a man’s willful choice to live alone, away from the “unfeeling crowd.”
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"Sexualität im angehenden Erwachsenenalter" : die sexuelle Handlungsfähigkeit junger Frauen und Männer
… ihren Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und ihren sexualmoralischen Einstellungen auf der einen Seite und der Einschätzung ihrer sexuellen Handlungsfähigkeit auf der anderen Seite untersucht. Die Grundlage für das Modell der sexuellen Handlungsfähigkeit bildeten die Vorstellungen der Arbeitsgruppe …