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This article is an attempt at answering the question of how women experiencing primary procreative problems define femininity. The analysis is based on the chosen fragments of interviews conducted with thirty-seven women experiencing primary procreative problems, realized by us within the research programme “From socially-determined health to social health: ways of coping with procreative problems”. In order to reconstruct the types of femininity represented by women experiencing primary procreative problems, we have analyzed the answers the participants gave to the questions relating to the place of motherhood in their future plans, reasons for making the decision to start trying for a baby, reminiscences of the early period of procreative actions and their ways of approaching the question of what it means to them to be a woman. The analysis of the collected empirical material allowed us to distinguish four types of femininity represented by women experiencing primary procreative problems – a questioned femininity, an incomplete femininity, a despite-it-all femininity and a suspended femininity. Identifying these four types of femininity represented by women experiencing primary procreative problems, allowed us to indicate the various ways in which procreative problems influence the definition of femininity for women experiencing them. However, despite all the identified differences, we can state that in most of the analysed cases, these problems have a negative impact on the way in which women experiencing them answer the question of what it means for them to be a woman.
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Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu określenie sposobów definiowania kobiecości przez kobiety znajdujące się w zróżnicowanej sytuacji prokreacyjnej. Szczególna uwaga poświęcona jest miejscu, jakie w definicjach respondentek zajmuje posiadanie rodziny oraz dzieci. Analiza jakościowa wypowiedzi respondentek wskazała jednocześnie na ciekawe podobieństwa i różnice w treści poczucia tożsamości płciowej trzech grup badanych. Szczególnie interesujący wydaje się fakt, że treści wypowiedzi kobiety, które w trakcie swoich starań o dziecko doświadczają trudności prokreacyjnych są bardziej zbliżone do wypowiedzi kobiet, które posiadają już dziecko, niż do tych, które są bezdzietne. Można zatem przypuszczać, że sytuacja prokreacyjna kobiet może różnicować to, w jaki sposób odpowiadają one na pytanie: kim jestem jako kobieta? Szczególnie w przypadku kobiet doświadczających utrudnionej prokreacji.
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The following article aims at discussing how women with different procreation status define femininity. Particular emphasis is laid on how the questioned women see the place of family and children in their definitions. A qualitative analysis of the responses also revealed interesting similarities and differences in terms of sexual identity between the three analyzed groups of women. In particular, the answers given by women experiencing difficulties in getting pregnant are more similar to the answers given by women that already have a child than to those that do not. We then can hypothesize that the procreation status can influence how a woman approaches the question: who am I as a woman? This is particularly the case for women experiencing difficulties in getting pregnant.
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