Milking the cow: Young women's construction of identity and risk in age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Maputo, Mozambique
Milking the cow: Young women's construction of identity and risk in age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Maputo, Mozambique
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DOI：
10.1080/17441690701589813
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Mussa, F.
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作者：
Hawkins, K.;Price, N.;Mussa, F.
青年妇女和老年男子之间涉及经济交易的性关系被认为是撒哈拉以南非洲许多地区艾滋病毒流行率存在性别差异的可能原因。本研究采用同伴民族志，探讨青年妇女的社会身份和风险的年龄不同的交易性关系中的马普托，莫桑比克。同伴人种学，一个快速的方法，来自人类学的方法和培训目标群体的成员进行深入的定性访谈与他们的同龄人的基础上，通过在很短的时间内收集人种学数据，以产生可操作的结果设计的通信干预。这项研究强调了年轻女性对这些关系中的代理和权力的看法。通过一项以性能力为基础从男子那里榨取财政和物质资源的战略，青年妇女建立了一种积极的身份认同和尊重，这种认同和尊重与她们对现代化和消费的看法以及她们获得消费品的能力有关。在结构性条件几乎不提供机会和对安全的经济未来的希望有限的情况下，目前的行为改变艾滋病毒预防信息对青年妇女的预期目标没有什么意义。
Sexual relationships between young women and older men involving economic transactions have been offered as a likely explanation for gender differences in HIV prevalence in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. This study employed peer ethnography to explore young women's construction of social identity and risk within age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Maputo, Mozambique. Peer ethnography, a rapid approach derived from the anthropological method and based upon training members of the target group to carry out in-depth qualitative interviews with their peers, was adopted in order to gather ethnographic data within a short timeframe to produce actionable results for the design of a communications intervention. The study highlights young women's perception of agency and power in these relationships. Through a strategy of extracting financial and material resources from men based on the power of their sexuality, young women construct a positive identity and esteem linked to perceptions of modernity and consumption and their ability to access consumer goods. Current behaviour change HIV prevention messages have little meaning in relation to young women's perceived goals, in a context in which structural conditions offer few opportunities and limited hope for a secure economic future.