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Exploring the Marginalized: How Older Women Define and Value Their Sexuality

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No. 22 (2024): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.77295

Abstract

This research seeks to understand how older adult women perceive and value their sexual lives. Using a qualitative methodology with a biographical approach, ten in-depth interviews were conducted with women over 75 years old residing in the Metropolitan Region in 2022. The results reveal that older adult women have diverse conceptions of sexuality. The participants express that their understanding of sexuality is dynamic and has transformed throughout their lives, significantly influenced by gender socialization, the cultural context of their youth, and taboo and prohibitive views. Additionally, their evaluations of their sexual trajectories are closely linked to the meanings they attribute to them, showing a relationship between how they appreciate their sexual lives and the beliefs and imaginaries they hold about them

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sexuality, older adult women, gender socialization, taboo, biographical qualitative

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Bárbara Ilona Danús Vigh, Universidad de Chile

Socióloga de la Universidad de Chile. Diplomada en Educación Sexual Integral por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

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Danús Vigh, B. I. (2025). Exploring the Marginalized: How Older Women Define and Value Their Sexuality. Revista Punto Género, (22), pp. 136–169. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.77295
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Universidad de Chile
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