'Expanding your mind': The process of constructing gender-equitable masculinities in young Nicaraguan men participating in reproductive health or gender training programs

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Torres, Virgilio Mariano Salazar ^a   Goicolea, Isabel ^b   Edin, Kerstin ^b   Öhman, Ann ^b  

^a National Autonomous University of Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change; Gender; Grounded theory; Masculinity; Nicaragua; Young men

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NICARAGUA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NICARAGUA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866016453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.17262     Document Type: Article

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