Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa
Cellphones and romantic relationships of young women in urban informal settlements in South Africa
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DOI：
10.1080/13691058.2021.1953609
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发表时间：
2021-07-08
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Jewkes, Rachel
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作者：
Gibbs, Andrew;Willan, Samantha;Jewkes, Rachel
手机已经影响了人们的亲密性关系。利用关系形成、维持和结束的框架，我们探索了手机和随之而来的社交媒体如何影响生活在南非德班城市非正式住区的一群年轻女性之间的关系。我们对参加Steps Stones和Creating Futures试验的15名女性进行了深入的重复访谈，并进行了小组讨论和轻微的参与者观察。我们的数据显示，手机和社交媒体是女性性关系的核心，让女性能够更好地控制关系--特别是关系的形成。然而，手机和社交媒体也让合作伙伴能够更好地控制和监控。在这项研究中，手机是建立(或不是)信任关系的核心，也是礼物，有时是男性用来表示爱的礼物，但通常会成为女性的陷阱，因为手机“仍然”是男性的财产，她们后来难以结束关系。我们的结论是，尽管手机为女性中介机构创造了新的空间和机会，但总的来说，女性存在的更广泛的社会和物质力量深深地制约着女性，是女性关系模式的主要驱动力。
Cellphones have impacted on people's intimate sexual relationships. Using the framework of relationship formation, maintenance and ending, we explore how cellphones and attendant social media have impacted on relationships among a group of young women living in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa. We conducted in-depth repeat interviews with 15 women enrolled in the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures trial, as well as group discussions and light-touch participant observation. Our data show that cellphones and social media are central to women's sexual relationships and allow women greater control over relationships - particularly their formation. However, cellphones and social media also enable greater control and monitoring by partners. In this study, cellphones were central in establishing (or not) trust in relationships, as well as being gifts, sometimes given by men to demonstrate love, but often becoming a snare for women who then struggled to end relationships because the phones 'remained' the property of the man. We conclude that while cellphones have created new spaces and opportunities for women's agency, overall the wider social and material forces of women's existence were deeply constraining and were the main driver of patterns in women's relationships.