Sexuality and the limits of agency among South African teenage women: Theorising femininities and their connections to HIV risk practises

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1729-1737

  Jewkes, R ^a   Morrell, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Femininity; Gender; Gender inequality; HIV prevention; Intimate partner violence; Sexual agency; Sexuality; South Africa

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; FEMINIZATION; GENDER ISSUE; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUALITY; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER BIAS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MONOGAMY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

EASTERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84860253903     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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