Being and feeling like a woman: Respectability, responsibility, desirability and safe sex among women of Afro-Surinamese and Dutch Antillean descent in the Netherlands

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 547-561

  Bertens, Madelief G B C ^a,c   Krumeich, Anja ^b   van den Borne, Bart ^b   Schaalma, Herman P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnic minority; Gender; Matrifocality; Netherlands; Sexual negotiation; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN SURINAMESE; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CONDOM; CULTURAL VALUE; DECISION MAKING; DUTCH ANTILLEAN; EMOTIONALITY; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPONSIBILITY; SAFE SEX; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONDOMS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NEGOTIATING; NETHERLANDS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SAFE SEX; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; SURINAME;

EID: 48249150726     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050802003014     Document Type: Article

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