Ethics Embodiment Rights and Responsibilities

Question 1

Narrative methodology

Answer 1

• Storytelling
• Narratives provide insight into how people make meaning from their experiences and construct a sense of self or identity
• Personal experience story

Question 2

Reflexivity

Answer 2

Reflexivity can be understood as an awareness of oneself acting in the social world. In the context of feminist-informed research methodology, the notion of reflexivity is used to address the role of the researcher within the research process and requires the researcher to critically reflect upon the nature of research

Question 3

Disability, sexuality and health

Answer 3

• Intersections
• Lack of research = inability of health services to appropriately respond to the needs, experiences and realities of queer women with disabilities
• Minority stress - associated with higher rates of substance abuse, addiction and mental health problems
• multiple barriers to accessing health services and sexuality education
• Women with disabilities constructed as ‘asexual’

Question 4

Agency

Answer 4

• A person’s capacity to act
• “requires an underlying sense of self, as well as an ability to assess the impact of one’s actions on future outcomes and the impact that past actions have had on present conditions” (Korteweg)
• individual and collective sense of being able to act
• Capacity to act may be constrained by structural inequalities

Question 5

Embedded Agency

Answer 5

• Agency as embedded in particular historical, social, cultural, and political contexts
• “A conceptualization of agency as embedded takes seriously that women’s subjectivity is informed by their religious practices in ways that directly shape their agentic behavior”

Question 6

Iraqi Women’s Blogs

Answer 6

• Digital selves
• Blogging as a practice of the self
• Private stories told publicly