Aproximación a la experiencia de cuerpo y sexualidad de un grupo de mujeres chilenas con discapacidad fisica congenita

Sue Jones B.; Tamara Duarte B.; Nicolás Astorga U.; Magdalena Pardo M.; Rodrigo Sepúlveda P.

doi:10.5354/0719-5346.2015.37127

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Approach to the experience of body and sexuality of a group of Chilean women with congenital physical disability

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Sue Jones B. Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional y Ciencia de la Ocupación, Universidad de Chile
Tamara Duarte B. CEDET Maipú - CRS Salvador Allende G.
Nicolás Astorga U. Centro Criayuda
Magdalena Pardo M. Hogar de Cristo
Rodrigo Sepúlveda P. Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, Universidad de Chile

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015): Agosto

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2015.37127

Abstract

The current qualitative and exploratory research had the purpose of focusing on the sexuality and body experience of a group of congenital handicapped Chilean women. For that purpose, five women were interviewed in depth using the Glasser & Strauss Constant Comparative Method. Results suggest that the participants have experienced several processes of corporeal and sexual legitimation in both familiar and socio-sanitario contexts. The major problem that the participants have to face lies in the prejudiced and clichéd attitudes they have been subjected to, which a result of the collective imagination association to disability and gender. Nonetheless, the presence of performative experiences which push the hegemonic speech is highlighted, thus favoring changes on the existing definitions of the disabled body and its sexuality. We conclude that, being an everyday sexuality and significant activity in the lives of persons, it is important that occupational therapists develop a reflective practice that allows unveil the re-production of normalizing discourse of sexuality and contribution to the recognition of the right sexual diversity in all its forms.

Keywords:

Legitime body, Inlegitimated body, sexuality, women in disability situation

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Jones B., S., Duarte B., T., Astorga U., N., Pardo M., M., & Sepúlveda P., R. (2015). Approach to the experience of body and sexuality of a group of Chilean women with congenital physical disability. Revista Chilena De Terapia Ocupacional, 15(1), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2015.37127

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