Plummer Mary Louisa, Wight Daniel Young People`s Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania 9780739135785

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Автор: Plummer Mary Louisa, Wight Daniel
Название: Young People`s Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780739135785
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Классификация:

Региональные исследования

Исследование развития

Заболевания и пагубные зависимости: социальные аспекты

Социология: смерть и дряхление

ISBN-10: 0739135783
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 464
Вес: 0.79 кг.
Дата издания: 27.07.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Findings from a large qualitative study in tanzania
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young peoples sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily large and representative qualitative study that was affiliated with an adolescent sexual health intervention trial and included three person-years of participant observation conducted by young East Africans in nine Tanzanian villages. The book describes typical patterns of sexual relationship formation in adolescence and early adult life, the variety of young peoples relationships and practices, and the contradictory social ideals and expectations that led premarital and extramarital relationships to be concealed. Young mens main motivations for sex were pleasure and masculine identity, while young womens was to receive money or materials to meet their basic needs, such as soap or a daytime meal. By their late teens most young people had experienced one-time sexual encounters, open-ended opportunistic relationships, and main sometimes semi-public partnerships. Relationships could involve desire, possessiveness, and affection, but romantic idealization of a partner was rare. Many young people expected their partners to be monogamous, but themselves had had concurrent relationships by age 20. The practice of hiding premarital sexual relationships from adults often also concealed them from other sexual partners, which helped maintain concurrency and inhibited realistic risk perception. Understanding of the biology of HIV/AIDS was very limited. Condoms were rarely used because they were associated with reduced pleasure, infection and promiscuity. Sexually transmitted infections were common, but several factors hindered young people from seeking biomedical treatment for them. Many instead relied on tradit

Young People`s Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa: Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania, Plummer Mary Louisa, Wight Daniel