'Men value their dignity': securing respect and identity construction in urban informal settlements in South Africa
'Men value their dignity': securing respect and identity construction in urban informal settlements in South Africa
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DOI：
10.3402/gha.v7.23676
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Jewkes, Rachel
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作者：
Gibbs, Andrew;Sikweyiya, Yandisa;Jewkes, Rachel
背景：城市非正规住区仍然是艾滋病毒发病率和流行率以及暴力的高发地。越来越多的关注是如何配置的年轻男子的男子气概塑造这些做法，通过探索男子如何建立尊重和身份。在本文中，我们探讨如何年轻的黑人南非人在两个城市的非正式住区建设尊重和男性identity.Methods：数据来自三个焦点小组和19个深入访谈。我们认为，虽然年轻人渴望一个“传统”的男子气概，优先考虑经济权力和对家庭的控制，我们建议，青年男子气概出现，取代其他方式来展示权力，优先考虑对男子的性伴侣、寻求多个性伴侣的男子和男子对其他男子的暴力的暴力和控制。这功能作为一种方式，展示男性气概和他们的位置在一个公共性别order.Discussion：我们建议有三个影响的调查结果与男性的暴力和艾滋病毒的风险减少。首先，男性关于男子气概的话语中存在许多矛盾，这可能为变革提供空间和机会。其次，鉴于暴力、酗酒和性风险在青年男子气概中相互关联，必须同时处理多个问题。最后，处理男子被排斥在资本主义制度之外的问题，可能是减少暴力的一个重要途径。
Background: Urban informal settlements remain sites of high HIV incidence and prevalence, as well as violence. Increasing attention is paid on how configurations of young men's masculinities shape these practices through exploring how men build respect and identity. In this paper, we explore how young Black South Africans in two urban informal settlements construct respect and a masculine identity.Methods: Data are drawn from three focus groups and 19 in-depth interviews.Results: We suggest that while young men aspire to a 'traditional' masculinity, prioritising economic power and control over the household, we suggest that a youth masculinity emerges which, in lieu of alternative ways to display power, prioritises violence and control over men's sexual partners, men seeking multiple sexual partners and men's violence to other men. This functions as a way of demonstrating masculinity and their position within a public gender order.Discussion: We suggest there are three implications of the findings for working with men on violence and HIV-risk reduction. First, there exist a number of contradictions in men's discourses about masculinity that may provide spaces and opportunities for change. Second, it is important to work on multiple issues at once given the way violence, alcohol use, and sexual risk are interlinked in youth masculinity. Finally, engaging with men's exclusion from the capitalist system may provide an important way to reduce violence.