" Money talks, bullshit walks" interrogating notions of consumption and survival sex among young women engaging in transactional sex in post-apartheid South Africa: A qualitative enquiry

Globalization and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zembe, Yanga Z ^a,b   Townsend, Loraine ^a   Thorson, Anna ^b   Ekström, Anna M ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumption sex; Global technologies; HIV; Modernity; Post apartheid; South Africa; Survival sex; Transactional sex; Wealth inequalities; Young women

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; GLOBALIZATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MODERNITY; POST-APARTHEID; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INCLUSION; SURVIVAL; WOMENS STATUS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; CASUAL SEX; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL; TRANSACTIONAL SEX; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLOTHING; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLITICS; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLOTHING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; POVERTY; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881139483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-28     Document Type: Article

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