Transcending the 'grotesque' illumination of female sexuality

dc.contributor.authorDamgaard, L. Marie
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education.
dc.contributor.supervisorKellett, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-30T19:08:18Z
dc.date.available2019-10-30T19:08:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study contributes to the scholarship of women’s sexuality by utilizing a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, with feminist, Tantric nondual underpinnings to explore a group of co-researcher women's understanding of their self-defined ‘grotesque’ sexual experiences. Furthermore, the analysis of their interviews sought to discover the meanings and resulting transformations that these women have undertaken in their experience of sexuality, self, and beyond, which they ascribe to these ‘grotesque’ sexual experiences. Analysis and interpretation of the transcripts resulted in the emergence of several subthemes. The subthemes fell into three main themes, including, Theme A: Patriarchy as a Sculptor of the ‘Grotesque’, Theme B: Denying Authentic Self, and Theme C: Becoming Transformed Through Transgression. Ultimately, the findings of this research study are significant in that they give value to women’s experience, while simultaneously exploring the meaning and understanding that these co-researchers acquired from reflecting on these experiences.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5567
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0453
dc.proquest.subject0733
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education
dc.publisher.facultyEducationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education)
dc.subjectfemale sexuality
dc.subjectgood girl/bad girl constructs
dc.subjecthermeneutic phenomenology
dc.subjectsexual experiences
dc.subjecttantra
dc.subjecttantric nondual perspective
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleTranscending the 'grotesque' illumination of female sexualityen_US
dc.typeThesis
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