Exploring the Meaning of Sexuality, the Body, and Identity After Birth Using Feminist Poststructuralism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To explore how sexual health in the postpartum period is influenced by and negotiated through relations of power. DESIGN: Discourse analysis informed by feminist poststructuralism. SETTING: Telephone interviews conducted in Nova Scotia, Canada. PARTICIPANTS: Eleven women who gave birth in the last 1 to 6 months and lived in Nova Scotia. METHODS: We recruited participants through social media and invited them to share their experiences after birth through individual interviews. Using Baxter's approach to discourse analysis, we focused on identifying how participants created meaning within their experiences. RESULTS: We identified two main themes: Negotiating Change and Renegotiating Identity. Participants defined their bodies in new ways that could be sexual and/or nonsexual and created new meaning(s) of their identities as mothers and as sexual beings after birth. CONCLUSION: The meaning of the body and identity are intricately connected and significantly affect how sexual health is experienced by women during the first 6 months after birth. As such, it is critical that care providers prioritize, acknowledge, and validate how women in the postpartum period choose to define their sexuality, identity, and bodies to ensure the provision of person-centered care.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".