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Psicologia: teoria e prática

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CREMA, Izabella L.  e  TILIO, Rafael De. Gender and sexuality in intimate relationships: interpretation and experiences by elderly women. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp. 1-22. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/ePTPSP12948.

This research aimed to understand the older women's meanings and experiences attributed to gender relations and sexuality in their intimate relationships. Twelve women attending an Elderly Care Unit in a city in the state of Minas Gerais/Brazil were interviewed. Three categories were established from a thematic content analysis: Sexuality education influences, Sexuality standardization, and Aging sexuality resignifications. The main results highlighted that the participants received a morally rigid education that reinforced traditional gender roles (double sexual morality), generating misinformation, fears, shame, uncertainties, and doubts about femininity and sexuality that could, however, be reformulated during aging due to new experiences and knowledge and, thus, their meanings and experiences moved from gender and sexuality traditional conceptions to their questionings.

Palavras-chave : aging; elder; marriage; sexuality; gender.

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