TY - JOUR ID - 74106 TI - The lived experience of women survivors of self-immolation in Kohnani district of Kohdasht city JO - Woman in Development & Politics JA - JWDP LA - en SN - 2538-3124 AU - Bagheri, Rahman AU - rezapour, daruish AU - ghafarinasab, esfandiar AD - Faculty member of Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran AD - faculty member of shiraz un Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 325 EP - 348 KW - attempting self-immolation KW - Lived Experience KW - rural women KW - participants DO - 10.22059/jwdp.2019.271017.1007541 N2 - Suicide is one of the social injuries in various societies, which is done in a variety of ways; self-immolation is one of the most painful of these practices. The aim of this paper was to the lived experience of women survivors of self-immolation in Kohnani district of Kohdasht city, which during the years 2004 to 2017 committed self-immolation but survived the death. In this qualitative research, researchers have used the method of interpretive phenomenology, purposive sampling and deep interviewing technique with 10 women to collect information. All interviews were recorded and immediately imprinted on paper and analyzed with an interpretive approach.Research findings indicate that the seven main categories of "Cultural Traditionalism", "Economic Challenges", "Lack of Relational skills", "Violence of husbands against women", "Unpleasant divorce", "self-expression and deliverance", and "easy access to the materials of self-immolation"; are contexts and conditions which affect the attempting self-immolation for women. The results of this study indicate the interaction of different cultural-social, economic and psychological dimensions in the process of self-immolation in rural women. Based on the findings, this study offered some suggestions. UR - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_74106.html L1 - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_74106_2c8ad82f86d240598b2f057db9fe37d8.pdf ER -