Open AccessΗ διά του λόγου κατασκευή της ταυτότητας των ανύπανδρων γυναικών
Author(s) -
Ευδοξία Κοτρώνη,
Χριστίνα Αθα
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychologia: to periodiko tīs ellīnikīs psychologikīs etaireias/psychologia. to periodiko tīs ellīnikīs psychologikīs etaireias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2732-6640
pISSN - 1106-5737
DOI - 10.12681/psy_hps.23728
Subject(s) - loneliness , gender studies , ideology , identity (music) , discourse analysis , sociology , independence (probability theory) , psychology , social psychology , discursive psychology , political science , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , politics , law
Understanding the experience of women who are not married and live alone has recently become an important issue within feminist psychology, since a significant and growing number of women belong to this category. The aim of the study is to examine the discursive construction of unmarried women’s identity. The methodology followed a poststructuralist approach in discourse analysis and data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews with unmarried women, aged between 36 and 52 years. The analysis highlighted the three maindiscourses the participants used in their accounts: (a) the discourse of independence, (b) the discourse of loneliness, and (c) the discourse of stigmatization. The paper discusses the consequences these discourseshave on the construction of the women’s personal identity, on the reproduction of the dominant ideology regarding unmarried women in Greece, as well as on women’s counseling.