Thesis
Sexual orientation and embodiment: a phenomenological study exploring the embodiment of sexual orientation identity formation in queer women
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Sep 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7516
Abstract
The relationship between personal narrative and embodied experience is interactional and tightly interlaced (Brandon, 2014). The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of queer women's sexual orientation identity formation. Purposeful sampling yielded three participants who participated in semi-structured interviews and movement elicitation. Using an inductive approach, the data was analyzed for essential themes. Thematic analysis was conducted by hand using literature-based codes and lean coding. The thematic codes included identification of embodied recall as both an intercorporeal and metaphorical experience. Findings may be useful to support the importance of the dance/movement therapy practitioner's attention to sexuality as a necessary component of embodied identity.
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- Title
- Sexual orientation and embodiment
- Creators
- Mary L. Patterson - DU
- Contributors
- Cynthia Johnson (Advisor) - Drexel University, College of Medicine
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- ix, 78 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 7516; 991014632312604721