سحر بوربور

Abstract  

The topic of this research is the biological phenomenology of single girls aged ۱۸ to ۴۵ in Tehran. We have chosen this subject because of the changes that have occurred in Iranian society from the perspective of the collision and confrontation of traditional discourse and values ??with the modern and postmodern world, and especially the importance of sexuality in the life and individual identity of women. In the theoretical part, on the thoughts of Anthony Giddens regarding the relationship between structure and agency, rethinking as well as his sexuality theory, William Good's modernization theory, Ronald Inglehart's theory of value transformation, Foucault's reflections on the idea of ??gender, Sigmund Bauman's theory of fluid modernity, the paradigm of symbolic interaction and finally We looked at feminist ideas. The purpose of reviewing these theories according to the assumptions of phenomenological research is to increase the theoretical sensitivity of the researcher, and these theories play an auxiliary role in the design of interviews and final analysis. The method of this qualitative research is phenomenology. We have conducted ۲۰ deep and semi-structured interviews with single girls. ۱۴ main themes, ۳۳ sub-themes and nearly ۱۰۰ descriptive themes were extracted from the interviews. The main themes in an analytical system have led the author to the conclusion that in Tehran, sexuality and, as a result, the sexual life of unmarried girls, is in a context of transition from tradition to modernity and postmodernity, and such an environment includes related tensions and arcs. It is related to structure and agency. We have formulated the subject of the research based on three axes, and the topics are also grouped around these three axes: unmarried girls' understanding of sexuality, social context, and sexual life management strategies. Unmarried girls' understanding of sexuality is formed in the context of existing social institutions and values ??and mutually affects their transformation. This dialectic leads to the adoption of strategies for biosexual management. What emerges from the findings of the research is that unmarried girls have a constructed and evolved understanding of sexuality in relation to hegemonic norms, and they represent this importance in sexual life management strategies. The adopted strategies cover a diverse spectrum with moderate to radical strains. It should be noted that strategies are also inclined to modern and postmodern understanding with a fluid direction and consistent with instrumental rationality. In other words, hedonism, empiricism, calculation, overcoming the present over the future and urgency over continuity are the characteristics of understanding and management strategies for sexual matters for single girls aged ۱۸ to ۴۵ in Tehran.