Pleasure, power, and inequality: Incorporating sexuality into research on contraceptive use

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1803-1813

  Higgins, Jenny A ^a   Hirsch, Jennifer S ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; EROTISM; HUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SAFE SEX; SENSATION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; WELLBEING; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GEORGIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN;

EID: 52449129379     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.115790     Document Type: Review

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