Health care experiences of a racially and economically diverse group of lesbians: A feminist narrative study
In this feminist ethnographic interview study, narrative analysis strategies were used to examine lesbians' access to health care services and their experiences in health care encounters. Forty-five lesbians, 51% of whom were women of color and 64% of whom were low-income, participated in indep...
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Abstract | In this feminist ethnographic interview study, narrative analysis strategies were used to examine lesbians' access to health care services and their experiences in health care encounters. Forty-five lesbians, 51% of whom were women of color and 64% of whom were low-income, participated in indepth interviews and focus groups. In 332 stories of health care incidents, they recounted their struggles obtaining health care, their interpretations of face-to-face interactions with health care providers, and the actions they took to meet their health care needs. According to participants' health care narratives, gender, economic, and racial hierarchies operate simultaneously with enduring societal values on traditional heterosexuality to intimately affect the health care experiences of lesbians. They described compounded vulnerability in pursuing health care. Access to care was limited by hostile, exclusionary health care environments that thrive on a complex system of deterrents, objectify clients, ignore health care needs of lesbians, women of color, and low-income women, relegate uninsured individuals to an overburdened, disintegrating public system, and withhold care from those who cannot pay. This racially and economically diverse group of lesbians evaluated 77% of their health care encounters negatively and 23% positively on the basis of these dimensions: (a) existence: facelessness vs. reflection, (b) bodily integrity: intrusion vs. intimate care, (c) emotional integrity: shamed vs. sheltered, (d) worth: abandoned vs. sustained, (e) uniqueness: instantaneous assumptions vs. storied knowledge, (f) expression: silenced vs. voiced, and (g) power: dominance over vs. solidarity with. They prioritized the need for vigilance in health care contexts to protect their safety. They guarded against harm in health care encounters by rallying support, screening providers, seeking corroboration, controlling information about themselves, bringing witnesses, challenging ill-treatment, escaping from danger, and surviving adversity. Lesbians' patterns of pursuing health care over time revealed the hazards they encountered and the emotional tolls they paid when seeking care. The structural and interactional oppression that they experienced in health care arenas pushed 44% of these lesbians to avoid or severely restrict health care contact despite their needs for health promotion information, preventive services, and treatment for acute and chronic health conditions. |
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