Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista L Benson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Queer People

The experiences of polyamorous queer people highlights and extends existing questions around subjectivity and identity. This article examines a case study of three polyamorous and queer-identified women and their experiences and brings them into conversation with existing queer feminist scholarship theorizing subjectivity and happiness. In this analysis, I highlight the points of commonality and disjuncture in these women’s experiences and identities. By doing this, I am attentive to the available subject-positions for polyamorous people, their desires for sameness or commonality, and the ways that these desires are often disappointed.

“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 640-658
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Policek
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives

Case study research provides the researcher with the opportunity to decide the most convincing epistemological orientation. Such versatility is nonetheless embedded in the assumption of objectivity contends G. Griffin in Difference in View: Women and Modernism, which speaks of an “abstract masculinity” intended here as the assumption of universal humanity where men's and women's experiences are melted into one experience. Case study research, this contribution contends, even when about women, hinders the experience of women, an experience that is always situated, relational, and engaged. In other words, ontologically, it is argued here, the reality of women's lives is absent from the domain of case study research because the language adopted when framing case study research is still very much a language that talks about women, but it does not allow women to speak.

scholarly journals Women’s experiences of the Odon Device to assist vaginal birth and participation in intrapartum research: a qualitative study in a maternity unit in the Southwest of England

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e057023
Author(s):  
Emily J Hotton ◽  
Natalie S Blencowe ◽  
Erik Lenguerrand ◽  
Tim J Draycott ◽  
Joanna F Crofts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Vaginal Birth ◽  
Maternity Unit ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Registration Number

ObjectiveTo investigate women’s experiences of having a birth assisted by the Odon Device (an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth) and participation in intrapartum research.DesignQualitative semistructured interviews and observations undertaken in the context of case study work embedded in the ASSIST feasibility study.SettingA tertiary referral National Health Service (NHS) maternity unit in the Southwest of England, between 8 October 2018 and 26 January 2019.ParticipantsEight women, four operators and 11 midwives participated with eight observations of the assisted vaginal birth, eight interviews with women in the postnatal period, 39 interviews/reflections with operators and 19 interviews with midwives. Women in the case study research were recruited from participants in the main ASSIST Study.InterventionThe Odon Device, an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth.ResultsThirty-nine case studies were undertaken. Triangulation of data sources (participant observation, interviews with women, operators and midwives) enabled the exploration of women’s experiences of the Odon Device and recruitment in the intrapartum trial. Experiences were overwhelmingly positive. Women were motivated to take part by a wish for a kinder birth, and because they perceived both the recruitment and research processes (including observation) to be highly acceptable, regardless of whether the Odon-assisted birth was successful or not.ConclusionsInterviews and observations from multiple stakeholders enabled insight into women’s experiences of an innovative device for assisted vaginal birth. Applying these qualitative methods more broadly may illuminate perspectives of key stakeholders in future intrapartum intervention research and beyond.Trial registration numberISRCTN10203171; ASSIST Study registration; https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN10203171.

“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 298-322
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Policek
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives

Case study research provides the researcher with the opportunity to decide the most convincing epistemological orientation. Such versatility is nonetheless embedded in the assumption of objectivity contends G. Griffin in Difference in View: Women and Modernism, which speaks of an “abstract masculinity” intended here as the assumption of universal humanity where men's and women's experiences are melted into one experience. Case study research, this contribution contends, even when about women, hinders the experience of women, an experience that is always situated, relational, and engaged. In other words, ontologically, it is argued here, the reality of women's lives is absent from the domain of case study research because the language adopted when framing case study research is still very much a language that talks about women, but it does not allow women to speak.

Solidaridad

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-115
Author(s):  
Megan Ryburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth

Chapter 5 uncovers the degree to which migrants are often excluded transnationally from social citizenship. The transnational space of social citizenship is defined in terms of tangible rights to shelter, education, and healthcare, but it also encompasses the less tangible right to family life and the necessity of having “social support.” Migrants’ experiences in relation to each of these domains are discussed, highlighting the worrying tendency toward a lack of solidaridad (solidarity) from Chilean service providers—a case study of six migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy and birth in Chile attest to this particularly.

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