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An Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Smoking-Related Stigma.
- Source :
- Qualitative Health Research; Aug2017, Vol. 27 Issue 10, p1445-1460, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In this article, we explore how young women encounter and counter discourses of smoking-related stigma. Twenty-seven young Australian women, smokers and ex-smokers, took part in interviews. A sub-sample of 18 participants took photographs to document their smoking experience, and took part in a second interview. Data were analyzed through Foucauldian discourse analysis. Four discourses were identified: “smoking as stigmatized,” “the smoking double standard,” “smoking as lower class,” and “smokers as bad mothers.” The women negotiated stigma in a variety of ways, shifting between agreeing, disagreeing, challenging, and displacing stigma onto “other” smokers. These experiences and negotiations of smoking-related stigma were shaped by intersecting identities, including gender, cultural background, social class, and mothering, which at times, compounded levels of stigmatization. It is concluded that tobacco control measures should consider the negative implications of smoking-related stigma, and the potential for women to experience compounding levels of stigma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SMOKING & psychology
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CULTURE
DISCOURSE analysis
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
MOTHERHOOD
PHOTOGRAPHY
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SEX distribution
SOCIAL classes
SOCIAL stigma
PSYCHOLOGY of women
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
HUMAN research subjects
PATIENT selection
NARRATIVES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10497323
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Health Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 124271542
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732316672645