My relationships have changed because I've changed

Biographical Disruption, Personal Relationships and the Formation of an Early Menopausal Subjectivity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249762
AutoresKate Johnston‐ataata (0000-0003-4853-651X, Social and Global Studies Centre RMIT University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), J Flores (0009-0003-0443-4113, autor de correspondencia), Jacinthe Flore (0000-0002-3136-9236, Social and Global Studies Centre RMIT University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), Renata Kokanović (0000-0002-4308-3403, Social and Global Studies Centre RMIT University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), Martha Hickey (0000-0002-3941-082X, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), Helena Teede (0000-0001-7609-577X, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation Monash University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), Jacqueline Boyle (0000-0002-3616-1637, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation Monash University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia), Amanda Vincent (0000-0002-3760-7266, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation Monash University Melbourne VIC Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen42
Número7
Páginas1516-1531
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13143
PMID32584443
OpenAlexW3037031055
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas39

Early menopause (EM) or premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) can disrupt gendered and age-related expectations associated with perceived 'normative' biographies for young adult women, with implications for subjectivity and relationships. While previous qualitative research has concentrated on the impacts of EM/POI on biography and sense of self, in this article, we examine the enmeshment of personal relationships with the formation of early menopausal subjectivities. Drawing on research exploring concepts of 'biographical disruption' and personal relationships, and theoretical work on social norms and subject formation, we present findings from a narrative thematic analysis of 25 interviews with women diagnosed with spontaneous or medically induced EM/POI. We identify three main narrative 'types' of subjective and relational experience in response to the 'disruption' of EM/POI: interlude and continuity; disruption and adaptation; and disruption and ambivalence. Women's accounts of their experience of EM/POI indicate that the formation of early menopausal selves is mediated by the extent to which women and those around them identify with gendered norms related to reproduction and age. Consistent with theoretical perspectives that consider the self as relationally produced, we argue that the subjective and relational dimensions of EM/POI are intertwined and must be understood in tandem

Ambivalence · Biography · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Life course approach · Narrative · Normative · Objectification · Qualitative research · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Thematic analysis · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments · Psychology · Social Psychology