'If I buy the Kellogg's then he should [buy] the milk': Young women's perspectives on relationship dynamics, gender power and HIV risk in Johannesburg, South Africa

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 477-490

  Pettifor, Audrey ^a   MacPhail, Catherine ^b   Anderson, Althea D ^c   Maman, Suzanne ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

femininity; gender; HIV; power; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASCULINITY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MASCULINITY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860350688     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2012.667575     Document Type: Article

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