ArticleThe British journal of sociology2021
Older Iranian Muslim women's experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach.
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- Marital satisfaction in Iranian infertile women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
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- A Meta-Ethnography of Women's Intimate and Sexual Experiences Across the Menopause Continuum.International journal of women's health · 2025Review
- A narrative case study of an older disabled Muslim woman during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Tales not from the clinic!Post reproductive health · 2022Article
- Older Iranian Muslim women's experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach.The British journal of sociology · 2021Article
- A Narrative Approach to Exploring Life Changes Among Middle-Aged Women: A Qualitative Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
Muslim women in Iran live in a patriarchal society which significantly restricts their freedom and agency. While there is a growing understanding of social change as it relates to younger Muslim women in Iran, the perspectives and experiences of older women are marginalized; mirroring problems with the intersections of age, gender, and sexuality in the West. In order to address this occlusion, this article draws on life history interviews with 30 older Muslim women living in Tehran and Karaj. Adopting a biographical life course approach, and examining pivotal moments related to sexuality in their lives, we discuss how cultural meanings and symbols of sexuality have emerged and been negotiated by these women at the life stages of puberty, first sex at marriage, and menopause. The patriarchal and religious gender order of Iran transgresses these women's human rights so that sexuality is experienced as a source of shame, stigma, and pollution, yet the women also exert forms of agency in their lives as they adopt and challenge these norms.
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