Sex Scripts and Power: A Framework to Explain Urban Women's HIV Sexual Risk with Male Partners

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 425-436

  Jones, Rachel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RISK-TAKING; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MARKETING; STEREOTYPING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746900392     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2006.05.003     Document Type: Review

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