"Showing roughness in a beautiful way": Talk about love, coercion, and rape in South African youth sexual culture

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-300

  Wood, Kate ^a   Lambert, Helen ^b   Jewkes, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; LOVE; MALE; NEGRO; OBSERVATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COERCION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOVE; MALE; OBSERVATION; POVERTY AREAS; RAPE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34548292497     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2007.21.3.277     Document Type: Article

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