Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt : sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies
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- Inge Blockmans (UGent) , Elisabeth De Schauwer (UGent) , Geert Van Hove (UGent) and Paul Enzlin
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- Abstract
- Approaching people and their experiences of sexual pleasure as continually in a state of becoming, we have aimed to allow for and explore these movements throughout data gathering, analysis, and presentation of a study on the sexual wellbeing of (four) women with traumatic (i.e., non-congenital) spinal cord injury. The data gathering methods—ranging from individual life story interviews over ‘on-the-road’ conversations during fieldwork to a focus group discussion—aimed to provide the participants with different routes to reflect on their subjective experience of the bodies in/with/through which they live and intimate relationships in the past, present, and future, sometimes resulting in a transformation of their sense of self and their bodily expression potential. The assembled glimpses of life were analysed by drawing on post-intentional phenomenology and plugging in the concepts of containment and sexual and intimate pleasure as becoming. Through a mix of autoethnography, fiction, and participants' words, the metaphor of a chastity belt is presented to capture how material-discursive practices around sexuality, touch and (health)care as well as the women’s ‘own’ meaning-giving of sexual pleasure and their body challenge their imaginative manoeuvrability, i.e., imagination related to one’s potential for sexual pleasure.
- Keywords
- sexuality, qualitative research, disability, embodiment, spinal cord injury, healthcare, autoethnography, writing
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8688201
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- Blockmans, Inge, et al. “Flowing Desires underneath the Chastity Belt : Sexual Re-Exploration Journeys of Women with Changed Bodies.” Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona, Routledge, 2021, pp. 325–40, doi:10.4324/9780429489570-29.
- APA
- Blockmans, I., De Schauwer, E., Van Hove, G., & Enzlin, P. (2021). Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt : sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies. In R. Shuttleworth & L. Mona (Eds.), Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality (pp. 325–340). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489570-29
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- Blockmans, Inge, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Geert Van Hove, and Paul Enzlin. 2021. “Flowing Desires underneath the Chastity Belt : Sexual Re-Exploration Journeys of Women with Changed Bodies.” In Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona, 325–40. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489570-29.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Blockmans, Inge, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Geert Van Hove, and Paul Enzlin. 2021. “Flowing Desires underneath the Chastity Belt : Sexual Re-Exploration Journeys of Women with Changed Bodies.” In Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, ed by. Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona, 325–340. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429489570-29.
- Vancouver
- 1.Blockmans I, De Schauwer E, Van Hove G, Enzlin P. Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt : sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies. In: Shuttleworth R, Mona L, editors. Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality. London: Routledge; 2021. p. 325–40.
- IEEE
- [1]I. Blockmans, E. De Schauwer, G. Van Hove, and P. Enzlin, “Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt : sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies,” in Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality, R. Shuttleworth and L. Mona, Eds. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 325–340.
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author = {{Blockmans, Inge and De Schauwer, Elisabeth and Van Hove, Geert and Enzlin, Paul}},
booktitle = {{Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality}},
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