Identity and pregnancy in conflict?: an examination of sexual minority women using qualitative description
| Autor: | Rachel L. Dyer, Madelyne Z. Greene |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Culture, Health & Sexuality. :1-16 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5351 1369-1058 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13691058.2022.2139413 |
| Popis: | While there is growing documentation of pregnancy among sexual minority women, little research has focused on their perceptions and experiences of conflict between sexual minority identity and pregnancy. Because of this, this study used Social Identity Theory and qualitative descriptive analysis to explore the following questions: do sexual minority women perceive sexual minority identity and pregnancy as in conflict; and if so, from where does this conflict arise and how do sexual minority women experience it? Participants included 21 lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and other non-heterosexual cisgender women, a third of whom had previously been pregnant. Themes captured internally located conflict, including participants who saw pregnancy as irrelevant and those who experienced pregnancy as acceptable for sexual minority women; imposed conflict from healthcare contexts, including both health provider assumptions and imposed conflict on reproductive |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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