Identity shapes how people make sense of the world and their experiences, including their interactions with other people. Although bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM) have been examined through a range of lenses, little research has explored the lived experiences and identity navigation of women who are both feminist and submissive. As women in this community navigate the intersecting meanings of feminism and submission, they might have trouble reconciling their politics and Dominance and submission (D/s) practice. When a person's identity characteristics intersect, there can be inner tension, whereby an individual might view herself as “wrong, other” or be viewed as “wrong, other” by society. Women who identify as both feminist and submissive may experience the phenomenon in qualitatively different ways, depending on life histories, level of identity resonance, and a variety of other issues impacting their lives. In this paper, we use phenomenography to investigate the differing ways in which 23 women in the BDSM community who identify as feminist and submissive navigate the conflicting identity standards of their feminist and submissive identities. Women in BDSM who identify as feminist and submissive navigate the identity standards in three ways: (1) having never experienced internal conflict between the identities (n = 9), (2) having experienced internal conflict between the identities in the past but no longer (n = 9), and (3) coping with current unreconciled internal tension between the identities (n = 5). These findings contribute to discourse on identity development, healthy relationships, and adult education by identifying challenges that women experience in accepting, reconciling, and navigating their identities.

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探索女性驾驭女权主义和顺从身份的方式：现象学

身份塑造了人们如何理解世界和他们的经历，包括他们与他人的互动。尽管束缚/纪律、支配/服从和虐待狂/受虐狂 (BDSM) 已经通过一系列镜头进行了研究，但很少有研究探讨既是女权主义者又是顺从的女性的生活经历和身份导航。当这个社区中的女性在女权主义和顺从的交叉含义中导航时，她们可能难以调和自己的政治和支配与顺从 (D/s) 实践。当一个人的身份特征交叉时，就会产生内在的紧张感，个人可能会认为自己是“错的，他者”或被社会视为“错的，他者”。既是女权主义者又是顺从的女性可能会以截然不同的方式体验这种现象，取决于生活史、身份共鸣水平以及影响他们生活的各种其他问题。在本文中，我们使用现象学来调查 BDSM 社区中 23 名被认定为女权主义者和顺从的女性如何应对其女权主义者和顺从身份的冲突身份标准的不同方式。在 BDSM 中认定为女权主义者和顺从的女性以三种方式驾驭身份标准：（1）从未经历过身份之间的内部冲突（我们使用现象学来调查 BDSM 社区中 23 名被认为是女权主义者和顺从的女性在她们的女权主义和顺从身份的冲突身份标准中导航的不同方式。在 BDSM 中认定为女权主义者和顺从的女性以三种方式驾驭身份标准：（1）从未经历过身份之间的内部冲突（我们使用现象学来调查 BDSM 社区中 23 名被认为是女权主义者和顺从的女性在她们的女权主义和顺从身份的冲突身份标准中导航的不同方式。在 BDSM 中认定为女权主义者和顺从的女性以三种方式驾驭身份标准：（1）从未经历过身份之间的内部冲突（n  = 9)，(2) 曾经经历过身份之间的内部冲突，但不再( n  = 9)，以及(3) 应对当前身份之间不可调和的内部紧张局势( n  = 5)。这些发现通过确定女性在接受、协调和驾驭自己的身份时所经历的挑战，有助于对身份发展、健康关系和成人教育的讨论。