Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.005
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发表时间：
2005-09-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Kruger, LM
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作者：
Lesch, E;Kruger, LM
统计数据表明，艾滋病毒/艾滋病和少女怀孕等性健康问题在年轻的南非低收入妇女中很普遍。为了提高针对青少年的预防方案的有效性，重要的是将重点放在青少年自身对发生性行为的理解和体验上。女性青少年对自己性行为的体验受到一系列背景的影响：从非常具体的亲密关系背景到性别、种族和社会阶层的更广泛背景。因此，必须采取一种研究方法，对群体进行分层，并根据特定社区的需要、兴趣、性信仰和行为制定干预措施，而不是发展一般的教育信息。这篇论文是一项更大的研究的一部分，该研究探讨了南非一个低收入农村有色人种社区中的女性青春期性行为。25名年龄在14-18岁的有色人种青少年女性接受了采访，询问她们如何看待自己的性取向。扎根的理论分析表明，参与者在这些性行为结构中表现出有限的性中介意识。这些年轻女性的母亲是年轻女性构建自己性行为的强大推动者，她们无意中助长了她们女儿有限的性使命感。母亲们认为性行为对女儿来说是一种危险的行为。这种性是危险的论述促成了双方的理解，即性不应该被谈论。女儿在性行为上对母亲的欺骗维持了母女之间的联系，但让她们没有一个互动的空间，可以自由地与母亲谈论性问题。(C)2005爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Statistics indicate that sexual health problems like HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies are prevalent among young South African low-income women. To improve the effectiveness of preventative programmes for adolescents it is important to focus on adolescents' own understanding and experience of their sexual behaviour within the contexts in which it occurs. Female adolescents' experiences of their own sexuality are shaped by a range of contexts: from the very specific context of their intimate relationships to the broader contexts of gender, ethnicity and social class. It is therefore imperative to adopt a research approach that stratifies groups and develops interventions that are based on the needs, interests, sexual beliefs and behaviours of specific communities rather than developing general educational messages. The current paper is part of a larger study exploring female adolescent sexuality in a South African low-income rural coloured' community. Twenty-five adolescent coloured women aged 14-18 years were interviewed about how they viewed their sexuality. The grounded theory analysis indicated that the participants demonstrated a limited sense of sexual agency in these constructions of their sexuality. The mothers of these young women were powerful agents in the young womens' constructions of their own sexuality and they unintentionally contributed to their daughters' limited sense of sexual agency. Mothers presented sex as a dangerous activity to their daughters. This discourse of sex as danger contributed towards a mutual understanding that sex should not be talked about. Daughters' deception of their mothers about their sexual activity maintained mother-daughter connections, but left them without an interactional space where they could talk freely to their mothers about sexuality. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.