Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka
Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka
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DOI：
10.1177/0959353518803976
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Marecek, Jeanne
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作者：
Abeyasekera, Asha L.;Marecek, Jeanne
在南亚，羞耻感被视为一种美德和一种社会控制手段，尤其是对女性而言。对斯里兰卡女性来说，羞耻（l AE jja-baya）代表谦虚、纯洁、天真和谦逊。对于未婚女孩来说，不正当的性行为——无论是谣言还是真实——都可能使她们失去体面，危及她们的婚姻能力和家庭的荣誉。我们通过重新分析先前在非致命性自杀行为研究中收集的女儿和母亲的访谈子集（N = 24对），调查了青春期女孩生活中羞耻和礼仪规范的动态。许多这样的行为发生在女孩被指控违反礼仪规范之后。其他类似的行为是为了“指责和羞辱”违法者。女孩和她们的母亲进一步报告说，公众知道类似自杀的行为会玷污女孩的声誉，因为旁观者会将其归因于性的含义。我们指出，父母对女儿的教育和职业成就的目标和愿望与他们必须遵守的体面行为的严格要求之间是不可通约性的。
In South Asia, shame is valued as a virtue and a means of social control, particularly for women. For Sri Lankan women, shame (l AE jja-baya) denotes modesty, purity, innocence, and self-effacement. For unmarried girls, sexual improprieties-rumoured or real-threaten loss of respectability and jeopardise a girl's marriageability and her family's honour. We investigated the dynamics of shame and norms of propriety in adolescent girls' lives by re-analysing a subset of interviews of daughters and mothers (N = 24 pairs) collected in a prior study of nonfatal suicidal acts. Many such acts took place after girls were accused of violating norms of propriety. Other such acts served to 'blame and shame' wrongdoers. Girls and their mothers reported further that public knowledge of a suicide-like act sullied a girl's reputation because onlookers ascribed sexualised meanings to it. We point out the incommensurability between parents' goals and aspirations for their daughters' educational and occupation attainments and the rigid demands for respectable comportment to which they must conform.