Aineiston nimi

Sexuality as Part of Life 1992

Aineistonumero

FSD2952

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2952
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2952

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Kontula, Osmo (University of Helsinki. Department of Public Health)

Muut tekijät

• Kosonen, Kati (University of Helsinki. Department of Public Health)

Sisällön kuvaus

The dataset contains 149 sexual life histories written by Finnish men and women for a national writing competition, advertised in popular magazines in 1992. The autobiographies were collected as part of the FINSEX research project studying Finnish sexuality. In the writing competition invitation, participants were asked to describe significant events, issues, experiences and feelings related to their sexual history, sexual life at that moment, and own sexuality in general, including sexual identity. While the participants were asked to write freely, they were also given a broad schema they could use to direct their narratives. The length of the autobiographies varied from one to 46 pages.

Background information included the participant's gender, age, occupation or other economic activity, and involvement in and type of couple relationship.

The dataset is only available in Finnish, with the exception of one autobiography available in Swedish.

Asiasanat

life events; partnerships (personal); sex education; sexual behaviour; sexual identity; sexual orientation

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Gender and gender roles (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Family life and marriage (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Kontula, Osmo (University of Helsinki. Department of Public Health)
• Kosonen, Kati (University of Helsinki. Department of Public Health)

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1992-04-01 – 1992-09-30

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havainto/aineistoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Event/Process/Activity

Media unit: Text

Perusjoukko/otos

Finnish people from young people to the elderly

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Havainto/aineistoyksiköiden valinta

Non-probability: Availability

The invitation to participate in the writing competition was advertised in several popular magazines. Interested participants were asked to phone the researchers in order to receive a brochure about the competition. Altogether 177 texts were submitted and 160 of these were deposited with FSD for archiving. In the end, 149 texts were suitable for archiving. The data do not include texts whose authors did not allow reuse for research purposes.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Data collection guidelines: Self-administered writings guide

Aineiston määrä

149 texts in RTF and HTML file formats. Lengths of the texts varied from one page to 46 pages.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

All identifying information about the participants and third persons that could enable identification of the participants was removed from the texts. These include, among others, places of residence and birth, and employment and occupation. If a participant declared that they had used made-up names in their text, the names were left intact. Otherwise all names were replaced by randomly selected pseudonyms at FSD. Other changes made in the text by FSD are marked with [square brackets].

11 texts were not included in the archived data, because their authors did not want them to be archived.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Kontula, Osmo (University of Helsinki): Sexuality as Part of Life 1992 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2015-04-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2952

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1995). Matkalla intohimoon. Nuoruuden hurma ja kärsimys seksuaalielämänkertojen kuvaamana. Helsinki: Wsoy.

Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1997). Intohimon hetkiä. Seksuaalisen läheisyyden kaipuu ja täyttymys omaelämäkertojen kuvaamana. Helsinki: Wsoy.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1997). Intohimon hetkiä. Seksuaalisen läheisyyden kaipuu ja täyttymys omaelämäkertojen kuvaamana. Helsinki: Wsoy.

Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1995). Matkalla intohimoon. Nuoruuden hurma ja kärsimys seksuaalielämänkertojen kuvaamana. Helsinki: Wsoy.

Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo & Rotkirch, Anna (2001). Sexual Life-Style in the Twentieth Century. A Research Study. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Taavetti, Riikka (2018). Queer Politics of Memory: Undisciplined Sexualities as Glimpses and Fragments in Finnish and Estonian Pasts. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Publications of the Faculty of Social Sciences 87. URN:ISBN:978-951-51-3330-4

Taavetti, Riikka (2019). Discovered Queer Desires: Rereading Same-Sex Sexuality from Finnish and Estonian Life Stories of the 1990s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 28(2), 205-234. doi:10.7560/JHS28202

Frisk, Matleena & Taavetti, Riikka (2020) FINSEX-tutkimusten sokea piste: Ohitetun väkivallan yhteiskunnalliset seuraukset Sukupuolentutkimus 33(4), 39-44.

Frisk, Matleena & Taavetti, Riikka (2021) Remembering rape: The temporal construction of sexual violence in autobiographical narratives from 1990s Finland. Sexualities (online ahead of print). doi: 10.1177/1363460721993037