Gender, sexuality and embodiment : access to and experience of healthcare by same-sex attracted women in Australia Edwards, Jane and van, Roekel Helen 2009, Gender, sexuality and embodiment : access to and experience of healthcare by same-sex attracted women in Australia, Current sociology, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 193-210, doi: 10.1177/0011392108099162. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Gender, sexuality and embodiment : access to and experience of healthcare by same-sex attracted women in Australia Author(s) Edwards, Jane orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-8478 van, Roekel Helen Journal name Current sociology Volume number 57 Issue number 2 Start page 193 End page 210 Total pages 18 Publisher Sage Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2009 ISSN 1461-7064 Keyword(s) Australia embodiment gender healthcare identity lesbians rural sexuality Summary This article identifies the way same-sex attracted women negotiate healthcare in a rural Australian setting. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 women. Respondents choose general practitioners (GPs) carefully, `interviewing' them to see if they hold acceptable attitudes to same-sex attraction. However, sexuality is not the only evaluative criteria women use. Some women invoke gender-based discourse, evaluating GPs by how well they treat women's bodies. In other instances, women utilize a framework based on sexuality; good healthcare is associated with how the practitioner dealt with same-sex attraction. Sometimes women evaluated care by reference to a model of the body that did not implicate gender or sexuality and GPs are evaluated on the basis of clinical knowledge. This shows that women do not define themselves in a unitary way in relation to gender or sexuality. They selectively and strategically employ discourses of gender, sexuality and embodiment to structure and evaluate healthcare Language eng DOI 10.1177/0011392108099162 Field of Research 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, Sage Publications Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30063844 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 02 Jun 2014, 10:16:08 EST Mon, 02 Jun 2014, 14:20:21 EST Mon, 02 Jun 2014, 14:20:58 EST Thu, 12 Jun 2014, 13:46:02 EST Fri, 03 Oct 2014, 22:10:17 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 203 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 02 Jun 2014, 10:16:08 EST