Symbolic capital and health: The case of women's sex work in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2045-2052

  Stoebenau, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Ethnography; Madagascar; Prostitution; Sex work; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social determinants of health; Women

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH RISK; INCOME; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CAPITAL; ECONOMICS; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MINORITY GROUP; MORALITY; PROSTITUTION; RACE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MADAGASCAR; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTANANARIVO [MADAGASCAR]; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 65749119029     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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