萝莉社

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Thesis Title
Young women, power, intimate relationships and wellbeing: The circumstances that enable young women's resistant subjective desires: "A pash and a dash"

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This research examines the silences operating in current feminist poststructuralist theory that restrains health practices in the area of young women鈥檚 wellbeing and intimate heterosexual relationships.聽 Within this research I facilitated positive visibility, humour and silenced heterosexual risk discourses in order to increase the participant鈥檚 access to resistant subjective desires. 聽This research took 聽a 鈥榗ritical realist鈥� theoretical position that rejected relativist poststructuralist ideas of knowledge being solely constituted 聽through language and聽 explored how the force of the corporeal body, language and material resources intersected to co-constitute resistant subject desires that enhanced participants wellbeing.聽 聽

Supervisors
Professor Antonia Lyons
Associate Professor Leigh Coombes