Pleasure, prohibition and pretence: single middle class women negotiating heteronormativity in Bangladesh

Karim, Shuchi

doi:10.1080/13691058.2021.1949043

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“…We also need global research about "the role of heteronormativity in healthcare and the application of diversity-affirming care into healthcare practices" [19]. Heteronormative patriarchy continues to be a dominant paradigm in South Asia [44,71,[75][76][77][78]. For example, an article by one of the authors of two Nepal-based studies included in our review emphasized the "lack of understanding of health and well-being, social exclusion, stigma, and discrimination" as experienced by LGBT+ populations in Nepal [71].…”

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Socio-sexual norms and young people’s sexual health in urban Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan: A qualitative scoping review

Alam,

Lin,

Thakkar

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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In South Asia, young people face myriad challenges and opportunities regarding their sexual lives relating to varied experiences of norms and restrictions; gender norms and socio-sexual taboos limit communication around sexual health which in turn can affect sexual health outcomes. In this article we focus on norms affecting young people’s sexual health experiences in urban settings in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. We conducted a scoping review of peer reviewed empirical studies based on qualitative data pertaining to young people’s experiences of sexuality and sexual health in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. We searched four electronic databases for articles published (2010–2022), using terms relating to sexual health, young people, and South Asia. Sixteen articles met the inclusion criteria with sample size ranging from 9 to 180. The authors followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines for the design and analysis of this study. We synthesised the included articles using thematic analysis. The studies covered topics such as sexual health services and contraceptive use; sexuality education and communication; and gender and sexual violence. Recurring findings included: parental and societal expectations around premarital ‘sexual purity’ through abstinence; limited communication around sexuality between young people and parents/adults; gender norms limiting young women’s sexual and reproductive decision making; and an absence of research on experiences of sexual and gender minorities. We identified common themes as well as prominent gaps which must be addressed if we are to capture diverse experiences and build a better evidence base to improve sexual health services for young people in the region. The body of research fails to include experiences of young people with diverse gender, sexual orientation, and sex characteristics.

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Socio-sexual norms and young people’s sexual health in urban Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan: A qualitative scoping review

Alam,

Lin,

Thakkar

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

Hossain,

Rahman

2024

Int Polit

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The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on activism. We detail what it means to think beyond postcolonial critiques of international LGBTQ rights, briefly explaining the realities and limits of queer politics in Bangladesh, focusing on sexual health infrastructures and the emergence of legal citizenship for the “third-gender” hijra population. We argue that these dimensions of queer existence remain circumscribed, and that a public discourse of sexualities remains difficult to create as a terrain for equality. We explore whether the framing of ‘decolonial’ is useful here, conceptualized as a process of working through the postcolonial critique of western structures of financial and sexual frameworks, towards an understanding of crisis that requires reading colonialism in its later evolution in the context of nationalism, neoliberal development, and religious fundamentalism.

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“I have taken your izzath (honour), so you can’t betray me” : Young people’s lived experiences of navigating sexual norms and violence in Bangladesh

Alam,

Bolio,

Thakkar

et al. 2023

Cogent Public Health

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Pleasure, prohibition and pretence: single middle class women negotiating heteronormativity in Bangladesh

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Socio-sexual norms and young people’s sexual health in urban Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan: A qualitative scoping review

Socio-sexual norms and young people’s sexual health in urban Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan: A qualitative scoping review

Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh

“I have taken your izzath (honour), so you can’t betray me” : Young people’s lived experiences of navigating sexual norms and violence in Bangladesh

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