Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exploring Female Narratives of Sexual Intimacy and the Social Suppression of Desire Subject The topic of the resource Critical; Desire; Female sexuality; Narrative; Sexual intimacy Description An account of the resource Exploring the construction of sexual identities by women, this research attempts to provide an experiential understanding of sexual intimacy in young adulthood through critical narrative analysis of the accounts of ten unmarried cis-gender women, located in the postmodern feminist paradigm and drawing from contemporary psychoanalytic tradition. The study highlighted the lack of discourse on female desire and pleasure (that is not fetishised, penalised, or ostracised) in the hetero-patriarchal socio-cultural fabric of India and how it manifests in the sense of shame, guilt, and self-doubt in the navigation of sexual intimacy. The social matrix, including the influence of family and partner dynamics and cultural and generational differences, was observed to play a prominent role in the evolution of individual perceptions of sexual intimacy. Analysing the narratives through a feminist lens foregrounded the predominance of male satisfaction and pleasure, the sense of obligation towards male partners, the infringement of boundaries and compromise, and the performativity in sexual experiences, thus calling attention to the female struggle of realising and practising sexual agency. The research indicates the need to critically examine the pervasive phallocentrism in the experience of sexual intimacy and the marginalisation of female sexual desire due to the suppression of female sexuality in the patriarchal hierarchy of power distribution. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rajan S.; Pathak S. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Human Arenas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-024-00441-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-024-00441-2</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85203089994&amp;doi=10.1007%2Fs42087-024-00441-2&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=7007ac245f13b3275147c27274cb59c6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85203089994&amp;doi=10.1007%2fs42087-024-00441-2&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=7007ac245f13b3275147c27274cb59c6</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 25225804 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Rajan S., Department of Psychology, CHRIST University, Delhi NCR, India; Pathak S., Department of Psychology, CHRIST University, Delhi NCR, India