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Women, Disabilities and Sexualities: An Intersectional Perspective from Health Discourses

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2025: Perspectivas críticas, experiencias, afectos y comunicación de personas género-disidentes
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4692.2025.79804
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Abstract

This research set out to explore how experiences related to the sexual health care of women with disabilities are shaped in health services in Cali, Colombia, in 2023, based on the discourses of women with disabilities using health services, as well as health professionals. A narrative study was conducted, drawing on interviews with two women with disabilities and five professionals from various health disciplines who work in academia. The data were analysed based on predefined categories and the theoretical framework guiding the study, which includes: “discourses” as mechanisms for the creation and reproduction of practices, as well as concepts of “sexuality”, “the body”, “gender”, and “disability” from feminist and critical theory perspectives. The findings reveal that hegemonic discourses emerge, persist, and are reproduced within the practices of health professionals. These discourses act as psychosocial, physical, and communicative barriers, constituting forms of unacknowledged violence that impact bodies and identities. These dynamics contribute to multiple forms of discrimination, limiting and stereotyping the sexual expression of women with disabilities. We conclude that speech-language therapy must engage critically with the discourses circulating within the health system. It is essential to rethink the meanings and signifiers for a process that reclaims bodies, disabilities, and sexualities not merely as social categories, but as tangible realities.

Keywords:

Women and Sexuality , Body , Disability , Discourses , Health System and Sexuality
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Jiménez Ospina L., Tenorio Medina, M., & Aguilar Arias, A. (2025). Women, Disabilities and Sexualities: An Intersectional Perspective from Health Discourses. Revista Chilena De Fonoaudiología, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4692.2025.79804
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