ABSTRACT Current understandings of sexual consent do not always acknowledge the effect of overarching social norms and ideals on how sexual consent is constructed. This research explored how women construct sexual consent using a feminist framework that focused on the use of discourses to analyse how power shapes these understandings. We aimed to gain insight into how women talk about sexual consent and the forces they identified as influencing their understandings. Five focus group discussions were conducted with female students from a university in Cape Town, South Africa. The analysis yielded three primary discourses in women’s talk of sexual consent: Consent as a Woman’s Call, Consent Without Desire, and Consent as Willingness. This work contributes to the existing literature on sexual consent by highlighting the context-specific nature of sexual consent and the ways in which power shapes women’s constructions of sexual consent in the context of heterosexual relationships.

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南非妇女对性同意的建构

摘要 当前对性同意的理解并不总是承认总体社会规范和理想对性同意如何构建的影响。这项研究探索了女性如何使用女权主义框架来构建性同意，该框架侧重于使用话语来分析权力如何塑造这些理解。我们旨在深入了解女性如何谈论性同意以及她们认为影响她们理解的力量。与南非开普敦一所大学的女学生进行了五次焦点小组讨论。分析得出了女性关于性同意的三个主要话语：同意作为女性的呼唤、没有欲望的同意和作为意愿的同意。