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Esacove, Anne W.

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Toward a cultural theory of women's sexual and reproductive behavior.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Toward a cultural theory of women's sexual and reproductive behavior./
Author:	Esacove, Anne W.
Description:	196 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2281.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3096089

Toward a cultural theory of women's sexual and reproductive behavior.
Esacove, Anne W.

Toward a cultural theory of women's sexual and reproductive behavior. - 196 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2281.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2003.

Building on cultural and narrative theories, this dissertation describes the process by which women make sense of their sexual and reproductive experiences and how this process may influence how they come to act and not act in these situations. Based on reproductive life histories collected from 25 U.S. born women, this study reveals very different explanations for women's sexual and reproductive behavior than those postulated by the prevailing theories and models in the United States. The accounts also expose the narrow range of cultural prescriptive narratives available to women as well as the individualized and personalized focus of explanatory narratives for making sense of their experiences. These cultural narratives limit, to varying degrees, the options women perceive to be (and actually have) available to them. Further, these narratives support the existing configuration of power relations and ultimately limit women's ability to construct an agentic and (self-defined) healthy sexual and reproductive self.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Toward a cultural theory of women's sexual and reproductive behavior.
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520 $a The women's life histories are also used to detail the mechanisms and relationships of the narrative process. Specifically, I differentiate prescriptive cultural narratives from cultural explanatory narratives, include a mediating level of narrative creation which helps to explain why similar women can make sense of the same experience in very different ways and more finely describe individuals' access to the cultural repertoire of meanings. Finally, I propose new directions for public interventions based on the concept of “alignment” which emerged from the women's accounts.
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