The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend: women's sexual partnerships and social networks in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend: women's sexual partnerships and social networks in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
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10.1080/02533952.2016.1194591
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2016
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Harrison A
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Swartz A;Colvin C;Harrison A
在南非，青年人的“多重”或“同时”伙伴关系在公共卫生话语中越来越突出-作为艾滋病毒传播的驱动因素。多重伙伴关系通常被用道德说教和消极的词语来描述，主要被描述为男性驱动的，在更广泛的框架内，妇女的脆弱性和利用性来生存和物质利益。基于对开普敦附近Khayelitsha镇青少年和年轻人的民族志田野调查，本文通过探索年轻女性复杂的人际关系和社会动力来调查她们的伙伴关系。我们在社会经济排斥、健康和福祉受到威胁、社会义务和照顾关系等更广泛的背景下，揭示了妇女对性关系和社会关系的多种动机和谨慎的管理策略。与青年人关系相关的意义和做法不仅仅是个人性行为、僵化的文化脚本或仅仅是“风险”所在地的总和。这里提供的数据突出说明了“预防”办法的一些局限性，这些办法没有考虑到对这种关系的这种微妙和多层次的看法。还应考虑到青年人关系的情感和同理心层面，以及这种关系发生的社会经济背景。如果不考虑这一情况，标准的“预防”办法就不太可能成功。
In South Africa, young people’s “multiple” or “concurrent” partnerships have been increasingly prominent in public health discourses – as drivers of HIV transmission. Multiple partnerships are typically framed in moralising, negative terms and depicted primarily as male-driven, within a broader framework of women’s vulnerability and use of sex for survival and material gain. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with adolescents and young adults in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, this article investigates young women’s partnerships by exploring their complex interpersonal and social dynamics. We unpack women’s multiple motivations for, and careful management strategies of, both sexual and social relationships in a broader context of socioeconomic exclusion, threats to health and wellbeing, social obligations and relationships of care. The meanings and practices associated with young people’s relationships are more than the sum of individual sexual behaviours, rigid cultural scripts or simply a locus of “risk.” The data presented here highlight some of the limitations of “prevention” approaches that do not take into account this nuanced and multilayered view of such relationships. The affective and empathetic dimensions of young peoples’ relationships, as well as the socioeconomic contexts in which they occur should also be considered. Without accounting for this context, standard “prevention” approaches are less likely to succeed.