" They arrested me for loving a schoolgirl" : Ethnography, HIV, and a feminist assessment of the age of consent law as a gender-based structural intervention in Uganda

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1774-1782

  Parikh, Shanti A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Africa; Evaluation; Gender; HIV; Law; Macro level structural intervention; Sexuality; Uganda

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUALITY; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

ARTICLE; CHILD ADVOCACY; CONSENT LAW; COURT; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMINISM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; LAW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LAW SUIT; PATERNALISM; PEDOPHILIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UGANDA; VICTIM; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CRIME; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; PEDOPHILIA; UGANDA;

UGANDA;

EID: 84860232786     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.037     Document Type: Article

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