Dissertation Research: Cultural Notions of Gender and Illness in Indonesia

论文研究：印度尼西亚性别与疾病的文化观念

• 批准号: 9528305
• 负责人: John Bowen
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-01 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9528305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Cultural; Notions; Gender

This award to Washington University-St. Louis supports the dissertation research of a student of cultural anthropology. The project will investigate the knowledge possessed by women in an Indonesian town about HIV/AIDS. Through interviews and ethnographic observations of married women, never-married women, and commercial sex workers, the student will assess the women's knowledge of how AIDS spreads, sexual practices which limit or facilitate the spread of the disease, and the women's abilities to negotiate `safe-sex` practices with their partners. The student will survey women in an urban area, select sub-samples of 60 women in each of the three groups to conduct longer interviews with, and select a sub-sample of 15-20 women from each group for open-ended, intensive discussions on gender relations, perceptions of risk of contracting disease, and general cultural values about gender and sexual relations and marriage. This research is important because it adds to our general expertise about this important area of the world, as well as specific information about women's knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in this region. The project will increase our understanding of what women know about heterosexual transmission of this growing social problem, and will produce valuable knowledge of women's self-perceptions of their own abilities to engage in less-risky behaviors. This sort of understanding will be valuable in designing programs to limit the spread of the problem not only in Indonesia, but in other places where women have comparable understandings and constraints.

这个奖项给华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校支持文化人类学学生的论文研究。 该项目将调查印度尼西亚一个城镇的妇女对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的了解情况。 通过对已婚妇女、未婚妇女和商业性工作者的访谈和人种学观察，学生将评估妇女对艾滋病如何传播的知识、限制或促进疾病传播的性行为以及妇女与其伴侣协商“安全性行为”的能力。 学生将调查城市地区的妇女，从三个组中每组选择60名妇女进行较长时间的访谈，并从每组中选择15-20名妇女进行关于性别关系、对感染疾病风险的看法以及关于性别和性关系及婚姻的一般文化价值观的开放式深入讨论。 这项研究之所以重要，是因为它增加了我们对世界这一重要领域的一般性专门知识，以及关于该区域妇女对性传播疾病和艾滋病毒/艾滋病的了解的具体信息。 该项目将增加我们对妇女对这一日益严重的社会问题的异性传播的了解，并将产生妇女对自己从事风险较小的行为的能力的自我认知的宝贵知识。 这种理解将有助于制定方案，不仅在印度尼西亚，而且在妇女具有类似理解和限制的其他地方，限制问题的蔓延。