Women who sell sex in a Ugandan trading town: life histories, survival strategies and risk
Women who sell sex in a Ugandan trading town: life histories, survival strategies and risk
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乌干达贸易城镇的卖春妇女：生活史、生存策略和风险
DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00027-2
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Nnalusiba, B
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作者：
Gysels, M;Pool, R;Nnalusiba, B
人们对非洲商业性工作者的背景知之甚少。这项研究调查了乌干达西南部横贯非洲高速公路上的一个贸易城镇的妇女如何参与商业性工作，哪些因素有助于她们的经济成功或失败，以及生活轨迹和经济成功对谈判能力和风险行为有什么影响。在两年的时间里，通过记录公开、深入访谈、收集性日记、收入和支出日记、走访妇女所在的村庄以及参与观察，收集了34名妇女的详细生活史。这些女性有着相似的弱势背景，这在她们进军商业性行为的过程中发挥了作用。然而，他们在利用机会和取得成功的程度上有着不同的经历。他们形成了不同的生活方式和处理性关系的各种方式。调查确定了三类女性：(1)在后街酒吧工作的女性，她们没有自己的资本，几乎完全依靠卖淫为生；(2)在主干道上的酒吧里从事更制度化的商业性交易的女服务员，通常是由中间人中介；(3)更成功的企业家，她们从自己的酒吧和商业性交易中赚钱。这三组人的风险状况不同。部分由于她们在经济上独立于男性，后者中的女性已经控制了性关系，可以为自己谈判良好的性行为，无论是在经济上还是在安全性行为方面。较贫穷的女性更容易受到伤害，也更难达成更安全的性行为协议。不利的背景和有限的经济资源是吸引妇女从事商业性工作的主要原因。个性的各个方面在利用商业性行为的收入建立经济基础方面发挥了作用，从而使性交易变得不必要。这对干预措施有影响，长期解决方案的一部分应该在于改善女性相对于男性的经济地位。(C)2002爱思唯尔科学有限公司。保留所有权利。
Little is known about the background of commercial sex workers in Africa. This study investigated how women in a trading town on the trans-Africa highway in southwest Uganda become involved in commercial sex work, which factors contribute to their economic success or lack of success, and what effect life trajectories and economic success have on negotiating power and risk behaviour. Over the course of two years detailed life histories of 34 women were collected through recording open, in-depth interviews, the collection of sexual and income and expenditure diaries, visits to the women's native villages, and participant observation. The women share similar disadvantaged backgrounds and this has played a role in their move into commercial sex. They have divergent experiences, however, in their utilisation of opportunities and in the level of success they achieve. They have developed different life styles and a variety of ways of dealing with sexual relationships. Three groups of women were identified: (1) women who work in the back-street bars, have no capital of their own and are almost entirely dependent on selling sex for their livelihood; (2) waitresses in the bars along the main road who engage in a more institutionalised kind of commercial sex, often mediated by middlemen and (3) the more successful entrepreneurs who earn money from their own bars as well as from commercial sex. The three groups had different risk profiles. Due partly to their financial independence from men, women in the latter group have taken control of sexual relationships and can negotiate good sexual deals for themselves, both financially and in terms of safe sex. The poorer women were more vulnerable and less able to negotiate safer sex. A disadvantaged background and restricted access to economic resources are the major reasons for women gravitating to commercial sex work. Various aspects of personality play a role in utilising income from commercial sex to set up an economic basis that then makes the selling of sex unnecessary. This has implications for interventions, and part of the longer-term solution should lie in improving the economic position of women vis-a-vis men. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.