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Olson, Amanda J. "Talk about "hooking up" how college students' accounts of "hooking up" in social networks influences engaging in risky sexual behavior /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-08062009-095359/.
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Barber, Lindsay L. Cooper M. Lynne. "Sex on the rebound motivations for sex and sexual experiences following a relationship breakup /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6475.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 17, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. M. Lynne Cooper. Includes bibliographical references.
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Martins, Tatiana de Cássia Ramos Netto [UNESP]. "Sexualidade e envelhecimento na percepção de pessoas idosas." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/97447.
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Embora valores culturais reforcem a ideia de dessexualização do idoso, a sexualidade é inerente ao ser humano, percorrendo todas as fases do desenvolvimento, incluindo a velhice. O organismo modifica-se como um todo com o passar dos anos e a sexualidade também se transforma. O envelhecimento traz modificações importantes no que se refere aos aspectos físicos e emocionais, porém a sexualidade é experimentada até o fim da vida. Esta pesquisa qualitativa-descritiva teve por objetivo investigar a opinião sobre a sexualidade do idoso a partir do relato de dez pessoas com idade avançada, de ambos os sexos, que responderam a entrevistas semi-estruturadas que foram gravadas e transcritas na íntegra para análise de conteúdo temático. As categorias analisadas foram: 1) educação sexual; 2) vínculos familiares; 3) aspectos sociais: trabalho, lazer e amigos; 4) representação da velhice, imagem corporal e autoestima; 5) sexualidade, relacionamentos amorosos e sexuais e; 6) saúde e resposta sexual (desejo, excitação e orgasmo). Os resultados obtidos indicam que para os participantes a sexualidade foi percebida como sinônimo de ato sexual, demonstrando uma noção restritiva de sexualidade humana. Os idosos relatam que se envolveram em relacionamentos amorosos e sexuais após os 60 anos e tratam a sexualidade, vivenciada nessa etapa, como algo natural e necessário tendo sido algo importante na vida hoje e pregressa. Também notaram mudanças na resposta sexual e na frequencia das atividades sexuais; entretanto, apesar das limitações físicas, não deixaram de vivenciar sua sexualidade de maneira prazerosa; referem-se satisfeitos com o desejo e orgasmo próprio e do (a) parceiro (a). Conclui-se que a sexualidade é um aspecto importante no envelhecimento considerando suas dimensões fisiológicas...
Although cultural values reinforce the idea of elderly de-sexualization, sexuality is inherent in human beings, covering all developmental stages, including old age. The body changes as a whole over the year and sexuality also transforms. The aging brings significant changes with regard to physical and emotional aspects, but sexuality is experienced until the end of life. This descriptive, qualitative research aimed to investigate beliefs about the elderly sexuality in the report of ten people with advanced age, of both sexes, who answered semi-structured interviews that were recorded and wholy transcribed for theme content analysis. The analyzed categories were: 1) sex education, 2) family ties, 3) social aspects work, leisure and friends, 4) old age representation, body image and self esteem, 5) sexuality, love and sexual relationships, 6) health and sexual response (desire, arousal and orgasm). The results indicate for the participants, sexuality was perceived as a synonymous of sexual act, demonstrating a restrictive conception of human sexuality. Older people report that they engaged in sexual and romantic relationships after 60 years old and deal with sexuality, lived at his stage, as a natural and necessary act, being important in their lives today and in the past. They also noted changes in sexual response and frequency of sexual activities, however, despite the physical limitations, they hadn't left to live their sexuality in a pleasant way; they pleasantly refer to their own desire and orgasm and of their partner's. We conclude that sexuality is an important aspect in aging, considering its physiological, psychological, emotional and cultural dimensions. It is emphasized that the results are not intended to be generalized because it is a small sample and with specific characteristics: straight and healthy people, coming from middle and... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Dubois, Stephanie L. "Examining the Eros in erotica : erotic thoughts, emotion, and sexual experience between genders." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259308.
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The present study examined gender differences in the emotional tone of written sexual fantasies. Participants included 182 heterosexual men and 206 heterosexual women enrolled in undergraduate clinical and counseling courses at a mid-sized Midwestern university. Data collected on each respondent was derived from five sources 1) a written sexual fantasy, 2) the Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ), 3) Human Sexuality Questionnaire - The Heterosexual Experience Subscale, 4) the Sexual Opinion Survey (SOS), and 5) the Revised Mosher Guilt Inventory. The Dictionary of Affect in Language (DAL) (Whissell, 1999) was used to obtain two quantitative measures, Activation and Evaluation of the emotional tone of the sexual fantasies. The variables of the study were gender role variables (agency and communion) and sex variables (erotophobia-erotophilia, sex experience, sex guilt, Activation and Evaluation). It was hypothesized that men would score higher on agency, sexual experience, erotophilia, and Activation, which is associated with arousal and action, and women would score higher on communion, erotophobia, sex guilt and Evaluation, which is associated with pleasant feelings. Gender differences were found for all variables except sexual experience and the measures of emotion, Activation and Evaluation. Given the stated hypotheses, canonical correlations were performed to determine the linear relationship of gender role and sex variables for men and women. One significant canonical correlation was found for men indicating that as agency, erotophilia, and sexual experience increase, sex guilt decreases. No significant canonical correlation was found for women. A discriminant analysis was performed to determine if the gender role variables and the sex variables were strong discriminators of sex. Results indicated that communion and erotophobia were the best discriminators for men and women. The study's present findings are discussed in terms of the sexual double standard and the changing social values of women in today's society. Limitations of the study and future directions of research in sexual fantasies and gender differences, specifically in terms of application to counseling are discussed.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Blocker, Gordon. "Looking for love biblically assessing and synthesizing the different ways Christians look for a spouse /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Nyerges, Jana Ramona Alley. "HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia a preliminary study of obstacles to behavior change in the copperbelt." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Jun%5FNyerges.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Letitia L. Lawson, Jessica R. Piombo. "June 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p.61-67). Also available in print.
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Martins, Tatiana de Cássia Ramos Netto. "Sexualidade e envelhecimento na percepção de pessoas idosas /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/97447.
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Orientador: Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi MaiaBanca: Paulo Rennes Marçal Ribeiro
Banca: Ligia Ebner Melchiori
Resumo: Embora valores culturais reforcem a ideia de dessexualização do idoso, a sexualidade é inerente ao ser humano, percorrendo todas as fases do desenvolvimento, incluindo a velhice. O organismo modifica-se como um todo com o passar dos anos e a sexualidade também se transforma. O envelhecimento traz modificações importantes no que se refere aos aspectos físicos e emocionais, porém a sexualidade é experimentada até o fim da vida. Esta pesquisa qualitativa-descritiva teve por objetivo investigar a opinião sobre a sexualidade do idoso a partir do relato de dez pessoas com idade avançada, de ambos os sexos, que responderam a entrevistas semi-estruturadas que foram gravadas e transcritas na íntegra para análise de conteúdo temático. As categorias analisadas foram: 1) educação sexual; 2) vínculos familiares; 3) aspectos sociais: trabalho, lazer e amigos; 4) representação da velhice, imagem corporal e autoestima; 5) sexualidade, relacionamentos amorosos e sexuais e; 6) saúde e resposta sexual (desejo, excitação e orgasmo). Os resultados obtidos indicam que para os participantes a sexualidade foi percebida como sinônimo de ato sexual, demonstrando uma noção restritiva de sexualidade humana. Os idosos relatam que se envolveram em relacionamentos amorosos e sexuais após os 60 anos e tratam a sexualidade, vivenciada nessa etapa, como algo natural e necessário tendo sido algo importante na vida hoje e pregressa. Também notaram mudanças na resposta sexual e na frequencia das atividades sexuais; entretanto, apesar das limitações físicas, não deixaram de vivenciar sua sexualidade de maneira prazerosa; referem-se satisfeitos com o desejo e orgasmo próprio e do (a) parceiro (a). Conclui-se que a sexualidade é um aspecto importante no envelhecimento considerando suas dimensões fisiológicas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: Although cultural values reinforce the idea of elderly de-sexualization, sexuality is inherent in human beings, covering all developmental stages, including old age. The body changes as a whole over the year and sexuality also transforms. The aging brings significant changes with regard to physical and emotional aspects, but sexuality is experienced until the end of life. This descriptive, qualitative research aimed to investigate beliefs about the elderly sexuality in the report of ten people with advanced age, of both sexes, who answered semi-structured interviews that were recorded and wholy transcribed for theme content analysis. The analyzed categories were: 1) sex education, 2) family ties, 3) social aspects work, leisure and friends, 4) old age representation, body image and self esteem, 5) sexuality, love and sexual relationships, 6) health and sexual response (desire, arousal and orgasm). The results indicate for the participants, sexuality was perceived as a synonymous of sexual act, demonstrating a restrictive conception of human sexuality. Older people report that they engaged in sexual and romantic relationships after 60 years old and deal with sexuality, lived at his stage, as a natural and necessary act, being important in their lives today and in the past. They also noted changes in sexual response and frequency of sexual activities, however, despite the physical limitations, they hadn't left to live their sexuality in a pleasant way; they pleasantly refer to their own desire and orgasm and of their partner's. We conclude that sexuality is an important aspect in aging, considering its physiological, psychological, emotional and cultural dimensions. It is emphasized that the results are not intended to be generalized because it is a small sample and with specific characteristics: straight and healthy people, coming from middle and... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Chatterjee, Karishma. "An examination of self reports of young adults' talk about safer sex in dating relationships health, relationship and emotional outcomes /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1197598039.
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Peterson, Rachel. "Why Swaziland? how colonial history, nationalism, and cultural identity contribute to a national epidemic /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1991050401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Anderson, Samantha. "Gender performativity and ritual performance in South-east China." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23706.
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This thesis explores issues of subjectivity and gender around ritual activity in Xianyou county, Fujian Province, China. It focuses on three groups of women: Buddhist nuns, mediums and village women engaged in the ritual caretaking of their families. It also examines a spirit writing text from the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). It is suggested that subject positions and kin positions are to a certain extent coextensive and that participation in certain rituals is what constitutes one as a gendered subject (as a "woman") and in certain kin roles (as wife, daughter-in-law, etc.). Other gendered subject positions (such as that of melancholic lover) are explored in an attempt to complicate any simple determinism that might accompany to easy a correspondence of kin position with sex role.
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Robson, Elsbeth. "Gender, space and empowerment in rural Hausaland, northern Nigeria." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e40bc658-dff2-4876-a845-090a2552457a.
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Reducing gender inequalities by enabling women's empowerment is a major focus of the literature and practices of gender and development. The work of this thesis contributes to debates about female empowerment, especially for peasant women in peripheral capitalist economies. The central themes of enquiry are power relations of gender and space in the socio-economic processes in which peasant households and their members are embedded. The focus of investigation is the extent to which commodity exchange outside the household reinforces, or reduces, women's position of power/disempowerment. The central question taken for analysis is whether income earning via trading empowers women, thus reducing their subordination. This hypothesis is widely accepted. Many NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and other development institutions base efforts around the notion that income earning is liberating for women. This hypothesis is investigated for rural Hausa women in Northern Nigeria who are secluded within their homes by the religio-cultural practice of purdah, but who engage in trade, often through the agency of children. The major empirical part of the study develops and applies an original framework for analysis of empowerment that identifies and maps gender divisions of labour and space in the spheres of production, reproduction and circulation in which rural Hausa men and women are embedded. The overall conclusion reached is that gender divisions of work, both inside and outside rural Hausa households, and especially in trade, reflect and sustain the subordination of women and their inferior position relative to men, especially through the control of space. The notion of income earning as universally empowering for women does not hold because rural Hausa women engaged in the market are not significantly empowered by their income earning because of the complex realities of patriarchy whereby women have weak bargaining powers.
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Agus, Hendroyono Suphot Dendoung. "The meaning of condom : males' experience of multiple undafe sex partners in Bekasi, Indonesia /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd400/4838733.pdf.
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Molapo, Joseph Mohato. "A Christian analytic approach of marriage through abduction among the Basotho people of Lesotho a challenge for pastoral care ministry /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01172005-151033/.
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Richters, Juliet. "The social construction of sexual practice setting, sexual culture, and the body in casual sex between men /." Connect to this title online, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/352.
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Thomas, Linda, and Lary Totten. "Sexual identity risk favors in childhood suicide attempts." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1412.
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Dolan, Mary A. "Socioeconomic status and sex role values as determinants of divorce among women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1001.
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Fitzwilson, Mary Ann. "Innocents lost : university sex surveys in the 1920s and the battle for sexual moral authority /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074402.
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Powell, Anastasia. "Generation Y : re-writing the rules on sex,love and consent /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00004035.
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Ferreira, Da Silva Maria Joana. "Hunting pressure and the population genetic patterns and sex-mediated dispersal in the Guinea Baboon in Guinea-Bissau." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/37322/.
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In Guinea-Bissau (GB) the Guinea baboon (Papio hamadryas papio) is threatened by hunting pressure. Along with local extinctions, these practices may be inducing long-term genetic changes and disrupting underlying social structure. In this study, the bushmeat trade in GB was evaluated for the first time and the effect of hunting practices on the genetic diversity and population structure was investigated. By following the bushmeat trade at urban markets, we found baboons to be the third most traded primate species. Male baboon carcasses were sold at a price 60% higher than any other primate due to their larger body mass. Semi-structured interviews conducted with hunters revealed a preference towards male baboons and recent difficulty in finding this primates species. Non-invasive DNA sampling in southern GB and two different genetic markers (fourteen microsatellite loci and a fragment of the mitochondrial control region) suggested substantial levels of genetic diversity and recent genetic contact between different populations. However, geographic distances had a weak effect on population structure and the genetic discontinuities found were not related with landscape features. A contact zone was identified. Here, gene flow seems to be unidirectional and admixed individuals were in higher proportion. Hunting pressure may have induced recent contact between genetically differentiated individuals, which now co-exist in the same social unit. Additionally, the sex-specific patterns of gene flow and the composition of social units were compared with a non-hunted Guinea baboon population, using a molecular sex determination protocol and thirteen microsatellite loci. GB displayed a lower ratio of males within social units, which are formed in some cases by unrelated individuals. The clear female-biased dispersal pattern displayed in Senegal was less intense in GB, where gene flow seems to be mediated through both sexes. The aforementioned contact zone resulted from male immigration. Male baboon dispersal in GB could be the result of flight behaviour or a consequence of an altered sex ratio induced by hunting practices. The GB baboons displayed signs of a disrupted population and its future conservation requires specific actions to reduce or eliminate this activity.
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Nunes, Marcos Antonio de Andrade. "A adolescente de baixa renda em situação de mãe recente: uma representação de família." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2007. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=130.
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A família é o primeiro grupo social do indivíduo. Grupo esse que é de grande importância, uma vez que todas as relações sociais futuras o terão como base. A adolescente que se torna mãe vive duas transformações: uma a da própria fase, que lhe possibilita novas conquistas e uma maior independência de sua família de origem; outra, a condição da maternidade que aponta para a formação de um novo núcleo familiar, acarretando responsabilidades para as quais ainda não está devidamente preparada. Este estudo teve por objetivo compreender como a adolescente de baixa renda na condição de mãe recente, representa a família. A nossa pesquisa foi de natureza qualitativa. Participaram doze adolescentes que haviam dado à luz a seus filhos há menos de um ano. Utilizamos dois instrumentos para coleta do material: o primeiro consistiu na aplicação do Teste do Desenho da Família com Estórias (DF-E); e o segundo, a aplicação de uma entrevista semi-estruturada com uma questão disparadora: O que é para você, família?. Com a aplicação do teste e da entrevista foi possível identificar quatro núcleos temáticos: representação de família; configuração de família; o lugar do pai da criança na vida da adolescente e projetos para o futuro. Constatamos que essas adolescentes ainda privilegiam uma representação de família nos moldes da família conjugal tradicional e que há uma associação de sentimentos positivos em relação a ela. Observamos que as adolescentes que contam com o apoio familiar atuam melhor como mães, mesmo que vivam numa configuração de família não tradicional. O lugar do pai continua conservado, idealmente, mesmo que a função se apresente fragilizada. Os planos para o futuro são: voltar a estudar e trabalhar para cuidar melhor do filho. A partir dos resultados obtidos, destacamos a importância de se desenvolver programas junto às escolas, postos de saúde e espaços que trabalhem com adolescentes, com temas voltados à sexualidade, contracepção e família. Assim como, um trabalho com os avós que cuidam de seus netos, no sentido de oferecer orientação e apoio.The family is the first social group of the individual. Group this that is of great importance, a time that all the future social relations will have it as base. The adolescent who becomes mother lives two transformations: one of the proper phase, that makes possible it new conquests and a bigger independence of its original family; another one, the condition of the maternity that points to the formation of a new familiar nucleus, causing responsibilities for which duly it is still not prepared. This study had for objective to understand how the low income adolescent in the condition of recent mother, represents the family. Our research was of qualitative nature. Twelve adolescents had participated who had given to the light its children have less of one year. We use two instruments for the material collection: the first one considered on the application of Test of the Drawing the Family with histories; and the second one, the application of an interview half-structuralized with an initial question: What family is for you? With the test application and the interview was possible to identify four thematic nucleus: family representation; family configuration; the place of the childs father in the adolescents life and projects for the future. We evidence that these adolescents still privilege a family representation in the molds of the traditional conjugal family and that it has an association of positive feelings in relation to its. We observe that the adolescents who count on the familiar support act better as mother, even that live in a not traditional family configuration. The fathers place continues conserved, ideally, even that the function presents fragile. The plans for the future are: come back to study and work to take care better of the son. From the gotten results, we detach the importance of developing programs together to the schools, healths ranks and spaces the work with adolescents, with subjects directed to the sexuality, contraception and family. As well as, a work with the grandparents who take care of its grandsons, in the direction to offer orientation and support.
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Gilbert, Lisa Kristin. "To have authority over a body : 1 Corinthians 7:3-4 and the conjugal debt." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101880.
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Commentaries on the medieval notion of the "conjugal debt" have often emphasized its reciprocal nature, but its inequality becomes apparent when re-embedded into its theological, medical, and legal contexts. By tracing the theology that accompanied 1 Cor 7:3-4 through selected theologians, I will demonstrate that Paul's words did not function in equivalent ways for both spouses. By examining medieval medical understandings of human physiology, I will ask what it means to 'have authority over a body' when the bodies themselves are not equal. Finally, by demonstrating ways in which consent and coercion blurred together in twelfth-century legal debates, I will ask how meaningful it is to grant spouses equal rights to sex when their marriage may have been coerced. The topic will serve as a broader meditation on what it means to 'have authority over a body' and to conceive of marital sexuality as a system of debt.
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Marlita, Tita. ""Ways of knowing" : Islamic customs of polygamy, veiling and seclusion in the autobiographical writings of Huda Shaarawi and Kartini /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47428.pdf.
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Flanigan, Christine M. "Staying With a Partner Who Cheats: The Influence of Gender and Relationship Dynamics on Adolescents' Tolerance of Infidelity." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182801526.
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Nkosana, Josephine Mmanchibidu. "Intergenerational sexual relationships in urban Botswana /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002295.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Dept. of Public Health, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, 2006.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-225).
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Wilson, Denette Michelle. "Human sexuality knowledge and attitudes among graduate social work students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1988.
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The purpose of this research was to obtain empirical evidence regarding the knowledge and attitudes among graduate social work students. It examines the relationship between age, previous sex education, marital status and the amount of human sexuality knowledge.
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West, Heather Hayley. "Die verskille tussen bruin en swart adolessente se seksuele gedrag." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52800.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Adolescents belonging to lower socio economic groups, seem to be at risk for teenage pregnancies as well as the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. It is therefore important to study the sexual behaviour of these adolescents. This study focussed on the sexual behaviour of coloured and black female adolescents from working class communities. The respondents consisted of all the coloured and black female adolescents in a traditional coloured and a traditional black school in a semi-rural area. A self-administrative questionnaire was used. The questionnaire focussed on biographical details, the language adolescents use when they talk about sex as well as their sexual and contraceptive behaviour. The goals of the study were to describe the sexual behaviour of the black adolescents and to compare the sexual behaviour of the coloured and the black respondents. A quantitative methodology was used to examine the black respondents' range of sexual behaviour, communication about sex, sexual force and molestation as well as high risk sexual behaviour. According to the results a high percentage of black adolescents used Western and medical terms when they talk about sex. The sexually active black adolescents had coitus at an early age which could have implications for the incidence of teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDS. A large percentage of the black adolescents indicated that they did not masturbate. Most of the black adolescents also indicated that they did not talk about sex with other people. A small percentage of the black adolescents reported that they were sexually molested or raped. A comparison with the coloured adolescents indicated that: more of the black adolescents reported that they had had coitus; more black adolescents reported pregnancies, more black respondents reported that they masturbated and fewer black adolescents reported that they smoked and used alcohol.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Adolessente wat aan laer sosio-ekonomtese graepe behaart, blyk 'n hoë risikagroep te wees vir tienerswangerskappe sawel as vir seksueel-aardraagbare siektes en MIV/VIGS. deel vorm. Dit is dus belangrik dat hierdie adalessente se seksuele gedrag nagevars ward. Hierdie studie het gefakus ap die seksuele gedrag van bruin en swart vroulike adolessente afkamstig uit werkersklas gemeenskappe. Die respandente het bestaan uit alle vroulike adolessente by 'n tradisianele bruin skaal en 'n tradisionele swart skaal in 'n semilandelike area. 'n Self-geadministreerde vraelys wat gefakus het ap biagrafiese gegewens, die taal wat adolessente gebruik wanneer hulle van seks praat asook seksuele en kantraseptiewe gedrag is in die studie gebruik. Die dael van die studie is eerstens om 'n beskrywing te bied van die swart adolessente se seksuele gedrag en tweedens om die seksuele gedrag van die bruin en swart adolessente met mekaar te vergelyk. "n Kwantitatiewe metadalagie is gebruik om die spektrum van seksuele gedrag, kommunikasie aar seks, seksuele dwang en malestering asook haë risiko seksuele gedrag van die swart respandente te ondersoek, Die resultate het daarop gedui dat "n graot persentasie van die swart adolessente gebruik maak van Westerse en mediese terme wanneer hulle van seks praat. Die aanvang van koïtus vir die seksueel aktiewe swart adolessente was ap "n vroeë ouderdom , wat implikasies kan hê vir die voorkoms van tienerswangerskappe en MIV/VIGS. 'n Graat persentasie van die swart adolessente het gerapparteer dat hulle nie masturbeer nie. Dit het verder geblyk dat hierdie graep swart adolessente selde verbaal aar seks kammunikeer met ander persone. "n Klein persentasie van die swart adolessente het qerapporteer dat hulle seksueel gemalesteer af verkrag is. "n Vergelyking met die bruin adolessente het aangedui dat meer swart adolessente kaitus gehad het, meer swart adalessente swangerskappe gerapparteer het, meer swart adalessente aangedui het dat hulle gemasturbeer het en dat minder swart adolessente raak en alkahalgebruik gerapparteer het.
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Hartzler, Rachel Nafziger. "Loss as an invitation to transformation living well following the death of a spouse /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (M.A. in Christian Formation)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2004.Abstract. Thesis supervisor: Daniel S. Schipani. Appendix 1: "A Questionnaire for People Who Are (or at One Time Were) Widowed." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150, 191-194).
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Husni, Rahiem Maila Dinia. "Learning from the west : sexuality education in taboo Javanese society." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81497.
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In this thesis I examine the issues of sex education in Western and Javanese society using a conceptual-comparative approach. My main goal is to highlight the importance of sex education for young people in Javanese society. Research foci and discoveries include: how the notions of conservatism with regards to sexuality are rooted in Javanese culture and social values; the definitions, history, components, methods and principles of Western sex education (particularly Canadian); the measures of success for sex education programs in the West; and to what extent Western sex education can be applied to Javanese society. In the final chapter I offer recommendations for Javanese educational authorities on the need to create a new terminology of sex education.
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Marriott, Michelle Lee. "The attribution of sexual harassment as a function of race and job status." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1332.
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Solomon, Anne Catherine. "Division of the earth : gender, symbolism and the archaeology of the southern San." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21818.
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Bibliography: pages 180-207.Gender studies in various disciplines, particularly anthropology, have shown that the opposition of masculine : feminine is commonly used to structure other cultural contrasts, and that the representation of this opposition in cultural products is in turn implicated in the cultural construction of gender content. This bidirectional problematic, supplementing the more limited critique of gender 'bias' and masculinist models, is the focus of this research into archaeological materials. Rock art is the principal archaeological 'trace' analysed. Because the impetus to gender studies comes principally from the critical standpoint of feminism, analyses of gender and gendering in archaeological materials are evaluated in the context of gender issues in the present day, in terms of archaeological 'reconstructions' as legitimising the existing gender order. Theoretical influences include feminism, hermeneutics, marxism, (post)- structuralism, semiotics, and discourse theory. Aspects of language, and, particularly, the oral narratives of various San groups - the /Xam, G /wi, !Kung, Nharo, and others - are examined in order to establish the way in which masculinity and femininity are/have been conceptualised and differentiated by San peoples. This is followed by an assessment of the manner of and extent to which the masculine: feminine opposition informs narrative content and structure. The analysis of language texts permits an approach to the representation of this opposition in non-language cultural texts (such as visual art, space). Particular constructions of masculinity and femininity, and a number of gendered contrasts (pertaining to form, orientation, time, number, quality) are identified. Gender symbolism is linked to the themes of rain and fertility/ continuity, and analysed in political terms, according to the feminist materialist contention that, in non-class societies, gender opposition is potentially the impetus to social change. Gender(ing) is more fundamental to San cultural texts than has been, recognised, being present in a range of beliefs which are linked by their gender symbolism. I utilise a 'fertility hypothesis', derived from a reading of the ethnographies, in order to explain various elements of Southern African rock art, Well-preserved (thus relatively recent) paintings, principally from sites in the Drakensberg and south-western Cape, were selected. Features interpreted via this hypothesis include: images of humans, the motif of the thin red line fringed with white dots, 'elephants in boxes', therianthropic figures, and 'androgynous' figures, including the eland. The spatial organisation of the art, the significance of non-realistic perspectives, and the problem of the numerical male dominance of the art are also interpreted from this standpoint. The analysis permits critique, of the theorisation of gender and ideology in rock art studies, and of the biophysical determinism implicit in current rock art studies, in which attempts are made to explain many features of the art by reference to trance states, altered consciousness and neurophysiological constitution. Rain, rather than trance, is proposed as the central element of San ritual/religious practices. Finally, the treatment of (or failure to consider) gender(ing) in the archaeological record is situated in relatio.n to contemporary gender ideologies, in the contexts of archaeological theory and practice.
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McCullough, Anna. "Gender and public image in imperial Rome." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/357.
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Rauch, Rena (Rena Petronella). "Harmful sexual practices and gender conceptions in Kwazulu-Natal and their effects on the HIV/AIDS pandemic." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53446.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper looks critically at particularly two harmful sexual practices most prevalent among the Zulu people in Kwazulu-Natal; virginity testing for girls, and the practice 'dry sex.' It is mostly the ripple effects of these practices, regarding the spread of mV/AIDS that is most alarming to medical science, leaving them no option other than to condemn this behaviour. This treatise however endeavours throughout to proffer understanding for the needs of a culture as diverse and unique as the Zulu people. Further, this paper often looks from an overarching African perspective, since despite African peoples' differences in terms of linguistics, geography, religiosity and general differences in daily run of the mill activities, there is a dominant socioreligious philosophy shared by all Africans. The, a, band c of virginity testing, and the resulting moral issues revolving around this practice are addressed. The main issues regarding the repercussions of virginity testing are discussed as well as the medical controversy involved in these issues. This will prove the limited effectiveness of this practice and the potential, yet serious and harmful ramifications it has for girls who are tested. In stark contrast to these girls, stands the girl who starts at a very tender age with the practice of 'dry sex', often encouraged and taught to her by female elders in order 'to please men'. This practice serves as a very powerful tool for commercial sex workers, venturing the streets and the truck driver stops, as it lures men into making her the preferred choice. So desperate are her socio-economic and cultural circumstances that she risks infection, and ultimate death, in order to comply with his need for unprotected and 'dry sex.' Numerous studies alert us to the fact that the drying agents used lead to lacerations of the vaginal walls, causing SID's, which in tum, exacerbate the spread of the disease. Zulu traditions and customs regarding sexuality and sexual relationships proffer essential insight into the Zulu people's sexual behaviour. In order to strike a balance between two diverse cultural groups, the West and African, a critical assessment of the West's own sexual history guides us to understand the West's 'sober' practice of monogamy is no less 'permissive' and 'promiscuous' than the African's practice of polygamy. The paper also investigates the corresponding differences in relation to indigenous knowledge systems versus science. African people discern the body's physiology and anatomy metaphorically and symbolically. We cannot simply gloss over these perceptions, enforcing scientific-based knowledge in our educational programmes, without consideration and accommodation for a very unique way of interpreting one's daily experiences and one's unique self. It is not only our biased discernment of indigenous knowledge that complicates the Aids pandemic considerably, but it is also enhanced by the burden of stereotyped gender-roles. Not only is a paradigm shift regarding the imbalance of power very much needed, we also need to understand that the inculcated anger some men in the Zulu culture fosters is a force to be reckoned with, as it displays psychological underpinnings of damage, signalling very clearly the need for therapeutic measures of healing. Conversely, the female in the Zulu culture has started to empower herself, but not always in terms of a beneficial end in itself. Similarly, it must alert us to the fine line separating the virgin-whore dichotomy, fuelled by her poverty-stricken and maledominated existence. It would appear that what we are fighting for is more than the preservation of life whilst engulfed by AIDS's scourge, but a global vision where the individual, or a whole community, with regard to mVIAIDS, is "self-reproducing, pragmatically selfsustainable and logically self-contained." (Bauman 1994: 188)
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die Zoeloe kultuur figureer daar veral twee tradisionele seksuele gedragspraktyke wat kommer wek by sommige Westerlinge, hier ter plaatse sowel as in die buiteland. Alhoewel hierdie praktyke as natuurlik, eksklusief en algemeen beskou word, is daar huidiglik stemme van protes wat waarsku dat die twee praktyke potentiele gevaar inhou vir die mens se gesondheid en geesteswelsyn. Die praktyke behels dat jong en weerlose meisies vanaf die ouderdom van ses jaar gereeld onderwerp word aan 'n vaginale toets om vas te stelofhulle nog 'n maagd is, en, die voorkeur van sommige mans om omgang te he met 'n vrou wat haar vagina op 'n 'onnatuurlike' wyse droog, hard en styf hou met die oog op 'n meer bevredigende seksuele ervaring vir die man. Baie vroue geniet ook hierdie ervaring. Die mediese wetenskap is veral bekommerd oor die moontlike verband tussen die nadelige repurkussies van die twee praktyke en die vinnige verspreiding van MIVMGS en pleit derhalwe dat daarmee weggedoen word. Die praktiseerders van eersgenoemde praktyk word byvoorbeeld gewaarsku dat dit mag lei tot gevalle van verkragting, anale seks asook kindermishandeling, terwyl laasgenoemde praktyk veral twee hoe risiko-groepe ten opsigte van die VIGSpandemie ten prooi val; die kommersiele sekswerkers in Kwazulu-Natal wat die praktyk gebruik as wapentoerusting, en die land se vragmotorbestuurders wat hierdeur verlei en aangemoedig word. Hierdie vorm van seksuele omgang ondermyn egter nie net kondoomgebruik nie. Studies het bewys dat die gebruik van 'n vaginale uitdrogingsmiddel daartoe kan lei dat die wande van die vagina mag skeur. Beide groepe loop derhalwe nie alleenlik die risiko om 'n seksueeloordraagbare siekte op te doen nie, maar om ook 'n VIGS-slagoffer te word. Terwyl die beperkte effektiwiteit van die twee praktyke deurkam word, poog die verhandeling om deurgaans 'n duidelike ingeboude begrip te handhaaf vir die unieke en eiesoortige karakter van die Zoeloe kultuur. Dit redeneer dat beide groepe, Afrikaboorlinge en Westerlinge, moet probeer verhoed om te polariseer en illustreer dat diverse kultuurgroepe almal, vanuit 'n kultuurhistories perspektief, meerdere of mindere tekens van promiskuiteit en permissiwiteit ten opsigte van seksualiteit toon. Dit spreek vanself dat die twee praktyke ondersoek moet word teen die agtergrond van die Zoeloe's se inheemse kennis met inbegrip van die wyse waarop die menslike fisiologie en anatomie metafories en simbolies verklaar word. Die digotomie wat bestaan tussen inheemse kennis en wetenskap vra dat ons boodskappe gekommunikeer moet word op 'n wyse wat beide gesigspunte konsolideer. Uiteraard kompliseer die stereotipering van geslagsrolle in die Zoeloe bevolking die VIGS-pandemie aansienlik. Dit dra in 'n groot mate daartoe by dat die VIGSpandemie nie suiwer as 'n biomediese probleem manifesteer nie, maar dat ander psigo-sosiale faktore in berekening gebring moet word. Dit werk byvoorbeeld 'n ongebalanseerde magsposisie in die hand wat sommige Zoeloe mans se sielkundige worsteling met hul diepgewortelde, polities geinspireerde woede belig en dui op sommige kontemporere Zoeloe vrouens se toenemende geneigdheid om seks aan te bied in ruil vir geld. Sy doen dit om sodoende haarself van die juk van die Zoeloe man se mag oor haar en haar neerdrukkende sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede te bevry. Die verhandeling beweeg dikwels buite sy grense en fokus nie net bloot op die gedrag van die Zoeloe bevolking nie, maar boorlinge van Afrika in die algemeen. Hierdie oorhoofse Afrika-perspektief vind regverdigingsgronde in die lig van die feit dat boorlinge van Afrika saamgesnoer word deur 'n oorheersende sosio-religieuse filosofie, desnieteenstaande die feit dat daar merkbare verskille voorkom ten opsigte van linguistiek, geografie, religieusheid en ander wat betref hul daaglikse gebruike en omgang.
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Brewis, Alexandra Avril. "Age and infertility: An ethnodemographic study from Butaritari Atoll, Kiribati." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185797.
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This biocultural study examines patterns of infertility, or failure to produce live births, by female age cohorts in the Micronesian population of Butaritari Atoll, Kiribati. Anthropological and demographic methods employed included analysis of census survey, reproductive history collection, structured and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, ethnohistorical research, vital registrations, and clinic records. Primary infertility levels are found to be extremely low in this population. This is argued to be a consequence of low risk of exposure to fertility-inhibiting disease, typically extended exposures to coital activity, and a culturally-influenced resistance to birth-limiting behavior before at least one child is born. There is little reduction in fertility, and therefore in biological capacity for conception, before women reach the end of their thirties. This pattern of high fertility is maintained because of socio-culturally defined patterns of sexual behavior within marriage which tend to maintain coital activity despite increasing marriage durations, and therefore with increasing age. In the study's conclusion infertility patterns by age for this population are discussed in relation to issues of the role of physiological aging and infertility increases in human populations. It is concluded that studies of infertility by age need to be considered as culturally-grounded and population-specific, particularly in reference to patterns observed at the population level in female age groups under forty.
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Fora, i. Eroles Facund. "Esquizofrenia y sexualidad." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405451.
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Se estudia una muestra de 103 pacientes diagnosticados de esquizofrenia según criterios DSM-III-R, en los que se valoran datos socioanagráficos, datos referidos a la enfermedad, historia médica e historia sexual y a los que se administra una escala de funcionamiento sociosexual premórbido, una escala de evaluación global (GAF) y un cuestionario que mide problemática sexual (GRISS). Los objetivos son analizar la conducta sexual y las disfunciones sexuales en pacientes esquizofrénicos, formulando hipótesis de asociación entre las características de la enfermedad y la sexualidad. La hipótesis de trabajo es que la esquizofrenia no altera la sexualidad de forma primaria, sino de forma secundaria, por la inhibición social que comporta y por el consumo de fármacos.
Se demuestra la hipótesis de trabajo, así como la similitud entre las pautas básicas del comportamiento sexual de los esquizofrénicos y la población general.
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Prado, Luis Antonio. "Patriarchy and machismo: Political, economic and social effects on women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2623.
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This thesis focuses on patriarchy and machismo and the long lasting political, economic, and social effects that their practice has had on women in the United States and Latin America. It examines the role of the Catholic Church, political influences, social, cultural, economic and legal issues, historic issues (such as the Industrial Revolution), the importance of the family's preference for sons rather than daughters, and the differences in the raising of male and female children for their adult roles.
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Joseph, Cynthia 1960. "Theorisations of identity and difference : ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in a Malaysian secondary school." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8007.
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VanderLaan, Doug P. "The development and evolution of male androphilia in Samoan fa'afafine." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3159.
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Male androphilia (i.e., male sexual attraction to males) is an evolutionary paradox. It is
unclear how genes for male androphilia persist given that androphilic males have lowered
reproduction? Evidence suggests that ancestral androphilic males were transgendered.
Hence, I address this paradox by focusing on a group of Samoan transgendered
androphilic males (i.e., fa’afafine). Specifically, I show that male androphilia has
consistent developmental correlates across Samoan and Western populations, indicating
that fa’afafine provide a suitable model for the evolution of male androphilia across
populations. In addition, I test hypotheses concerning the evolution of male androphilia.
Fa’afafine’s mothers and grandmothers exhibit elevated reproduction. Also, compared to
Samoan men and women, fa’afafine exhibit unique kin-investment cognition that would
enhance indirect fitness. Elevated reproduction by female kin, and enhanced kin
investments may, therefore, contribute to the evolution of male androphilia. Lastly, I
outline a developmental model for this unique kin-investment cognition in androphilic
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McKenzie, Kirsten Elizabeth. "Gender and honour in middle-class Cape Town : the making of colonial identities, 1828-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f00a5b9b-2797-4e6e-9b75-159c1985b74a.
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This study comprises an examination of the role of ideas concerning gender roles and respectability in the elaboration of a specific notion of a white colonial middle class in Cape Town, Cape Colony, in the decades before the establishment of Representative Government at the Cape. It pays particular attention to the cultural interaction of the incoming British settlers with the older Dutch society already in place in Cape Town. The insertion of British middle-class ideals of domesticity into Cape society had a decisive impact upon the public culture which would underpin the new political dispensation in the colony when a Representative Assembly was set up in 1853. The thesis argues that the new colonial political order which was enshrined in the constitution of 1853 was grounded upon a new gender order which set out distinctive roles for middle-class men and women and which allowed for the expression of a particular kind of personal and social respectability. Political developments in the Cape colony were thus inextricably tied to the elaboration of this new gendered social system. The thesis approaches the question of white colonial identity through several avenues. These include: the creation of a public sphere and changes in commercial culture; the importance of issues of the family and domestic service in structuring reform initiatives; the nature of male and female honour and its defence through defamation cases; the role of marriage in Cape colonial society; and the mediation of sexual transgressions through religious and civil authorities. Finally, the manner in which domestic ideology impacted upon political culture is approached through two case studies of political crisis during this period. The thesis thus seeks to advance South African historiography by undercutting the traditional division between studies of private and public life at the Cape in this period.
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Mitchell, David. "Equiping [i.e. equipping] and empowering male college students to learn and adopt lives of biblically informed sexual purity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p054-0268.
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Freysen, Rouxle. "Die rol van gender in die huwelik as sosiale instelling : persepsies van blanke Afrikanerstudente." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4348.
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Thesis (MPhil (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vraag wat in hierdie tesis aangespreek word, is hoe genderrolle in die samelewing geskep word. Die rol van die huwelik as sosiale instelling word in diepte bespreek en die funksionaliteit van die instelling word bevraagteken. Genderrolle in die samelewing word deur sosialiseringsagente gekonstrueer. Die sosialiseringsagente sal in hierdie tesis onder die loep geneem word en van nader beskou word. Die studie wou die tendens navors dat die samelewing tans as meer liberaal en nie-tradisioneel gesien word. Dit wil egter voorkom of hierdie skuif nie werklik in alle instellings plaasgevind het nie. Tradisionele waardes blyk steeds onderliggend aan sommige instellings in die samelewing te wees en ten grondslag te lê aan talle instellings. Die data vir hierdie studie is deur middel van kwantitatiewe asook kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodes verkry. Fokusgroepe is gebruik aangesien dit as die basis vir die vraelys en navorsing sou dien. Die vraelys sou dien om óf navorsing wat reeds bestaan te bevraagteken, óf om navorsing te bevestig. Vraelyste is of deur middel van ʼn ontmoeting aan respondente oorhandig of aan respondente wat deur middel van die ‘sneeubal’ effek verkry is, ge-e-pos. Die kriteria wat gebruik is vir die proefgroep was blanke Afrikaanssprekende Christelike studente aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Hierdie spesifieke groep is gekies aangesien hulle steeds as tradisioneel gesien kan word in teenstelling met studente wat in die algemeen as liberaal en vrydenkend gestereotipeer word. Die botsing van waardes is veral met die fokus op godsdiens ondersoek, en die impak van godsdiens op die huwelik is bestudeer. Die voltooide vraelyste is statisties verwerk deur gebruik te maak van STASTISTICA, ʼn elektroniese data-verwerkingsprogram. In hierdie tesis het sewe breë temas uit die vraelyste na vore gekom. Eerstens word die huwelik en die nukleêre gesin as belangrike asook noodsaaklike instellings in die samelewing gesien. Tweedens, word genderrolle in die samelewing gekonstrueer. Derdens, is geloof fundamenteel in die huwelik. Vierdens is die rol van die vrou in die huwelik om haar man te ondersteun. Die volgende tema wat beskou word, is dat Afrikaners as kultuurgroep steeds konserwatief is ten opsigte van hul keuse van ’n huweliksmaat, en dat hulle verkies om slegs vanuit hul kultuurgroep ’n huweliksmaat te kies. Sesdens beïnvloed die massamedia as sosialiseringsagent nie werklik persepsies van die huwelik nie, maar eerder seksualiteit. Laastens is ouers as sosialiseringsagente veral belangrik in terme van die rol van die vrou in ii die huwelik. Daar is slegs ten opsigte van persepsies oor seksualiteit, die huwelik asook die Afrikaner as kultuurgroep, ʼn beduidende statistiese verskil tussen manlike en vroulike respondente gevind. Uit die studie blyk dit dus dat genderrolle sosiaal deur die samelewing gekonstrueer word en dat sekere sosialiseringsagente die raamwerk bied waarin persepsies oor gender gevorm word. Die huwelik blyk steeds ʼn instelling te wees wat ʼn belangrike rol in die samelewing vervul. Die verdeling van arbeid in die huwelik blyk problematies te wees aangesien die toetrede van vroue tot die arbeidsmark, die nukleêre gesin beïnvloed en verander het. Uit die data wil dit voorkom asof ’n kontras bestaan tussen die nie-tradisonele waardes van die moderne samelewing en tradisionele idees wat steeds deur godsdiens ondersteun word.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question addressed in this thesis is how gender roles in society are created and established. The role and function of marriage as a social institution is also discussed. Gender roles in society are socially constructed, and the socialisation agents responsible for this construction of values and norms are evaluated. The question, however, was derived from values in society that seem to adjust to more liberal and non-traditional ideas, especially regarding marriage and gender roles. However, even if perceptions are favourable toward a less traditional society, traditional ideas seem to form the basis of many social institutions. The research was conducted in both a quantitative and a qualitative manner. The reason for this is that each method fills a specific gap within research. Focus groups acted as the basis for the questionnaire and further research. The questionnaire acted as a method to either find support for or contradict existing research. Questionnaires were distributed in meetings with respondents, and respondents that emerged from the snowball method, were contacted via email. The sample consisted of white Afrikaans-speaking Christian students on Stellenbosch University campus who were chosen because of perceptions that students in general are liberal but Afrikaners as a cultural group are fairly traditional. The conflict between this group’s norms and perceptions about students in general was researched. The completed questionnaires were statistically analysed by using an electronic data analysis programme, STATISTICA. Seven broad themes emerged as the main findings in this thesis. First, marriage and the role of the nuclear family in society is a much needed social institution. Second, it became clear that gender in society is a socially constructed concept. Third, it became apparent that religion plays a major role as socialisation agent and fulfils a fundamental role within society. Fourth, the role of women in marriage was clearly seen as that of the supportive wife. Another theme indicated that that was investigated was that Afrikaners as a cultural group are still very traditional and conservative, especially with regards to whom they marry. It seems like Afrikaners still choose marriage partners from within their own cultural group. Sixth, the mass media also seem to be socialisation agents especially with regards to sexuality. Finally, parents as socialisation agents play a big role in forming perceptions, especially with regards to the role of women in society. The study also indicated that there were statistical differences between male and female respondents, but only with regards to sexuality, marriage and the Afrikaner as a cultural group. From the study one could thus argue that gender roles are socially constructed and that socialising agents provides the framework for perceptions with regards to gender. The role of marriage in society still seems very important. The division of labour in marriage seems problematic due to women’s increasing participation in the labour market. It influences the nuclear family on many levels. There appears to be a contradiction between modern society’s non-traditional values and the more traditional values regarding marriage and gender roles still supported by religion.
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França, Giselli de Oliveira. "Trajetórias afetivas, sexuais e reprodutivas de jovens mulheres em vulnerabilidade social: experiências de socialização." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8457.
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This qualitative research aims to analyze the emotional, sexual and reproductive trajectories of young mothers who have experienced social vulnerability, including the condition of institutional shelters. The goal is to evaluate how young girls perceive the relationship between their life experiences and how they experience sexuality, maternity and affection. The concept of socialization adopts Berger and Luckmann referential, and the gender concept follows the definition of Joan Scott. The methodology of History of Life, within the field of Oral History was adopted. Five interviews with young mothers who had the experience of sheltering next to Sorocaba (SP) were conducted. Two interviews were transcribed in full and deeply examined. In the analysis, the impact of various socializing agents was discussed- public and private, and the social construction of women's identities, especially motherhood. The analysis of the life stories of these young people allows us to understand motherhood as a marker of their sedentarization, who usually have a history marked by nomadism. Moreover, the reports allowed reflections on gender relations, the social and historical construction of the role of women in our society. The absence of programmatic responses referring to this population was discussed, as well.
Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que objetiva analisar as trajetórias afetivas, sexuais e reprodutivas de jovens mães que vivenciaram situações de vulnerabilidade social, incluindo a condição de abrigamento institucional. Objetiva-se avaliar como as jovens percebem a relação entre suas experiências de vida e a forma como vivenciam a sexualidade, a maternidade e o afeto. O conceito de socialização é compreendido a partir do referencial de Berger e Luckmann, e o de gênero, pela definição de Joan Scott. Adotou-se a metodologia de História de vida, dentro do campo da História Oral. Foram realizados encontros com cinco jovens mães que passaram pela experiência de abrigamento em uma instituição da região de Sorocaba (SP) específica para essa população. Duas entrevistas foram transcritas na íntegra e analisadas em profundidade. Na análise, discutiu-se o impacto dos diversos agentes socializadores – públicos e privados, e a construção social das identidades femininas, especialmente a da maternidade. A análise das histórias de vida dessas jovens permitiu compreender a maternidade como um marcador do processo de sedentarização dessas jovens que em geral possuem uma história marcada pelo nomadismo. Além disso, os relatos possibilitaram reflexões acerca das relações de gênero, da construção social e histórica do papel da mulher em nossa sociedade. Ainda discutiu-se a ausência de respostas programáticas voltadas à essa população.
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Letcher, Amber. "Effects of romantic attachment on sexual activity, substance use, and abuse in a sample of runaway youth." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211308186.
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Binks, Gwendolyn Dale. "Taking another look at women and gender in Hemingway's works." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1969.
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This project supports the contrary argument that Hemingway provided a voice for the post-Victorian woman, a woman exercising her strength within relationships, her sexuality, her femininity, and her freedom from oppression during the twentieth century women's movement.
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Christensen, MacKenzie A. ""Tindersluts" & "Tinderellas:" Examining Young Women's Construction and Negotiation of Modern Sexual Scripts within a Digital Hookup Culture." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4495.
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While a growing body of literature exists examining how intersecting social identities and structural organizations shape the on-campus hookup script, research examining the impact of technology on the hookup culture has been virtually nonexistent. Addressing this gap, this study adds to a current body of literature on the hookup culture and online dating by exploring how a diverse sample of young women and non-binary, femme individuals understand and negotiate interpersonal sexual scripts through the mobile dating app Tinder. Ultimately, findings from 25 in-depth interviews reveal how Tinder has shaped the sexual scripts of young adult dating into a "hybrid hookup script." Unlike the traditional college hookup culture, which centers the hookup script on fraternity parties, sexual dancing, and drinking, the hybrid hookup script reintroduces traditional dating practices, such as formal dates, into the modern sexual scripts of young adults. Specifically, the hybrid hookup script maintains the traditional gendered expectation that men initiate conversations and dates, while incorporating the patterns of drinking and the expectation of non-relational sex central to the on-campus hookup culture. Nearly all participants engaged in the hybrid hookup script to some extent; yet, women of color were overrepresented among those who eventually opted out of Tinder altogether. In particular, experiences of sexual and racial harassment created an environment in which women of color felt racially objectified and fetishized. As a result, the majority of women of color indicated that they deleted the app and did not intend to go back. Overall, results underscore how the Tinder app may be operating to rearticulate existing hierarchies of gender and race.
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Riley, Kate E. "The good old way revisited : the Ferrar family of Little Gidding c.1625-1637." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0026.
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[Truncated abstract] The Ferrars are remembered as exemplars of Anglican piety. The London merchant family quit the city in 1625 and moved to the isolated manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire. There they pursued a life of corporate devotion, supervised by the head of the household, Nicholas Ferrar, until he died in December 1637. To date, the life of the pious deacon Nicholas Ferrar has been the focus of histories of Little Gidding, which are conventionally hagiographical and give little consideration to the experiences of other members of the family, not least the many women in the household. Further, customary representations of the Ferrars have tended to remove them from their seventeenth-century context. Countering the biographical trend that has obscured many details of their communal life, this thesis provides a new, critical reading of the family's years at Little Gidding while Nicholas Ferrar was alive. It examines the Ferrars in terms of their own time, as far as possible using contemporary documents instead of later accounts and confessional mythology. It shows that, while certain aspects of life at Little Gidding were unusual, on the whole the family was less exceptional than traditional histories have implied; certainly the family was not so unified and unworldly as the idealised images have suggested. Moreover, the Ferrars were actively engaged in making those images, for immediate effect and for posterity. The Ferrars' identities, corporate and individual, and their largely textual practices of self-fashioning are central to the study. Other key concerns are the Ferrars' moral and religious ideals and practices, gender in the family, and intra-familial relationships. Evidence for the thesis is drawn from family documents dating from the early years of the seventeenth century to the time of Nicholas Ferrar's death. ... The Little Academy is considered first: in this unique dialogue circle, young women discussed morally edifying historical tales, offering them a textually-mediated experience of the world and working to reinforce conventional gender roles and religious values. The final three chapters pertain to the copious and little-studied family correspondence. A chapter that develops a theory of the functions of the family correspondence network is followed by one studying the affective relationships that the celibate sisters Mary and Anna Collet maintained through their letters with their unmarried uncle and spiritual mentor, Nicholas Ferrar. These chapters consider the identities as single people that all three developed through these relationships, within the maritally-focused framework of the Protestant family. The last chapter also concerns the lives of the unmarried, examining the relationships of single male adults and their roles in the family, focusing on the friendship of Nicholas Ferrar and his cousin Arthur Woodnoth. The thesis closes by reflecting on the fact that returning the Ferrars to their seventeenth-century context reveals their multi-faceted nature, comprising ideals and identities sometimes incongruous with one another, and certainly unaccounted for in the traditional narratives. It thus demonstrates the importance of the overall project of reconceiving the Ferrars? history, which forms an original contribution to the study of the social, cultural and religious history of early seventeenth-century England.
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Burger, Catherin-Ann. "Heterosexual context and adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviour : an exploratative study in a coloured community." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51788.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A combined quantitative and qualitative methodology was employed in order to explore the intimate heterosexual context of coloured* pregnant adolescents as a determinant of their sexual risk-taking behaviour. Structured questionnaires were completed by forty young women attending prenatal clinics in the Stellenbosch area, and unstructured open-ended interviews subsequently conducted with ten selected respondents. It was found that the heterosexual relationships in which these girls were involved, tended to be intense emotional attachments based upon a foundation of friendship and trust, and reinforced by cultural notions of romantic love. In the wake of working class socioeconomic circumstances these relationships became a primary source of meaning-giving in respondents' lives, pervading all aspects of their everyday existence and guiding their future prospects. And it is in this context that sex prevailed as a means of deepening the emotional experience and pursuing relationship maintenance. Reproductive health interventions for coloured female adolescents would have to acknowledge these complexities and act upon them in ingenuous ways.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Gekombineerde kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe metodologie is geïmplementeer ten einde te bepaal op welke wyse die intieme heteroseksuele konteks van kleurling* swanger adolessente hulle seksueel riskante gedrag beïnvloed. Gestruktureerde vraelyste is voltooi deur veertig jong vroue wat prenatale klinieke in die Stellenbosch area bygewoon het, waarop ongestruktureerde nie-leidende onderhoude met tien geselekteerde respondente gevoer is. Dit is bevind dat hierdie meisies se heteroseksuele verhoudings meestal intense emosionele verbintenisse was, wat gebaseer is op 'n grondslag van vriendskap en vertroue, en wat versterk is deur kulturele opvattings van romantiese liefde. In die lig van werkersklas sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede, het hierdie verhoudings 'n primêre bron van betekenis in respondente se lewens geword. Dit het alle aspekte van hulle daaglikse bestaan beïnvloed en hulle toekomsvooruitsigte gerig. En dit is binne sodanige konteks wat seks beoefen is. Dit was instrumenteel ten einde verdieping van die emosionele ervaring en voortsetting van die verhouding te probeer bewerkstellig. Reproduktiewe gesondheidsintervensies vir kleurling vroulike adolessente sal erkenning moet gee aan hierdie kompleksiteite en vindingryke oplossings daarvoor moet genereer.
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Gustafsson, Erika, and Johanna Liikamaa. "Förtroendeskapande mellan företag och kunder : en kvalitativ studie om hur sex svenska företag ser på förtroendeskapande gentemot kunder." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31884.
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Kurs: 2FE73E, Examensarbete i företagsekonomi med inriktning marknadsföring, Ekonomihögskolan vid Linnéuniversitetet. Författare: Johanna Liikamaa & Erika Gustafsson Handledare: Leif Marcusson Examinator: Richard Owusu Uppsatsens titel: Förtroendeskapande mellan företag och kunder: en kvalitativ studie om hur sex svenska företag ser på förtroendeskapande gentemot kunder. Forskningsfråga: Hur arbetar svenska tjänsteföretag med förtroendeskapande gentemot kunder och potentiella kunder? Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra med en undersökning kring förtroendeskapande gentemot kunder. Vi har två delsyften, vilka är att klargöra och analysera hur företagen arbetar med kundrelationer och lojalitet. Metod: Studien baseras på kvalitativ metod, datainsamlingen har skett genom öppna telefonintervjuer med sex företrädare från företag. Resultat: Genom studiens intervjuer och dess resultat har vi kommit fram till att företag är beroende av förtroende från deras kunder. Våra informanter har återgett att förtroendeskapandeåtgärder är värt mycket och att utan förtroende kommer man inte långt i sitt arbete. Detta beror troligen på att det inte enbart är produkten eller tjänsten som står i fokus utan ”hela paketet” i form av service och förtroendeskapande åtgärder med mera. Det gäller därför att företagen lyckas nå fram till kunden och skapa ett förtroende hos dem.Title: Trust between companies and customers: a qualitative study of how six Swedish companies think about trust creation towards customers. Authors: Johanna Liikamaa & Erika Gustafsson Course: Business Administration III Marketing, Degree Project (Bachelor), Linnaeus University, 15 credits. Tutor: Leif Marcusson Examiner: Richard Owusu Aim: The aim of this thesis is to examine how Swedish service companies work with trust towards customers. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on trust and how our informants work with it towards their customers. The aim is decomposed into two specific aims of this study, which are to clarify and analyze how the companies are working with customer relationships and loyalty. Methodology: The research is based on qualitative method; data collection was done through open telephone interviews with six representatives from companies. Conclusion: Through the study's interviews and their results, we concluded that companies are depending on trust from their customers. Our respondents have stated that confidence building is worth a lot and with no trust; the company would not be long in his work. This is probably because the focus is not just on the product or service today, in fact it´s the "full package", in terms of service and confidence-building measures and more. It is therefore important that companies manage to reach the customer and create a confidence towards them.
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Véliz, Estrada Telma Patricia. "Estilos de vida y salud: Estudio del caso de los estudiantes de la facultad de ciencias médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/454898.
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América Latina, en la actualidad se enfrenta a una transición epidemiológica de enfermedades, es decir de infectocontagiosas a crónicas no transmisibles (ECNT), y Guatemala no escapa a esta transición, la cual se caracteriza por el cambio de enfermedades transmisibles a las crónicas no transmisibles asociada a las principales causas de morbilidad y mortalidad del país; como también una transición nutricional, cambio de hábitos alimentarios propios de la región a uno alto en grasa saturada, azúcar y carbohidratos refinados y bajos en fibra dietética, conocidos como comida rápida. Los cambios en los estilos de vida están asociados al fenómeno de la globalización y la transculturización entre otros. Estos cambios están aconteciendo de forma rápida en Guatemala, principalmente en la población universitaria. En este estudio, consideramos a los estilos de vida relacionados con la salud, como el conjunto de comportamientos que se realizan de forma frecuente por un sujeto o un conjunto de personas en un momento de su vida y que se encuentran en las mismas circunstancias. El objetivo de la tesis es analizar el consumo de drogas licitas e ilícitas, la actividad física, el consumo de alimentos y la conducta sexual que conforman los estilos de vida de los estudiantes de los primeros tres años de la licenciatura de ciencias médicas y conocer la participación de políticas en salud que ofrece la universidad a sus estudiantes. Para ello se realizó el trabajo de campo con la población estudiantil de la licenciatura de medicina, servidores en servicios en salud y tomadores de decisión de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala y una revisión de fuentes secundarias bibliográficas en las bases de datos electrónicas: PUBMED, SCIELO, CRAI y CUIDEN entre los años 2013-2016. De los artículos encontrados, destacar como dato más relevante, que los jóvenes universitarios poseen una alta presencia de creencias favorables sobre hábitos de vida saludables y a pesar de ello, no lo llevan a la práctica. Tras realizar una exhaustiva revisión podemos concluir que, según los distintos autores, los jóvenes universitarios en general, no tienen buenos hábitos alimentarios, consumiendo dietas desequilibradas con alto contenido calórico. Además, la práctica del ejercicio físico es baja, aun sabiendo que una buena alimentación y la realización de ejercicio tienen efectos beneficiosos sobre la salud. A esto hay que añadirle el consumo elevado de alcohol, tabaco entre los jóvenes universitarios. También los resultados de la tesis muestran la factibilidad de aplicación de medidas correctoras en el marco de las políticas nacionales de tipo social y salud dirigidas al grupo etario de la juventud en el entorno Universitario como grupo importante de la población que accede a la educación superior.
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Beukes, Danike Nanine. ""It is not only the guilty who suffer" : exploring gender, power and moral politics through the contagious diseases acts in the Cape Colony, c1868-1885." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95934.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with the build-up to, and resultant reactions against, regulating sexual practices in the Cape Colony, especially the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1868 and 1885. The focus will be on the existence of venereal disease as a colonial epidemic. The wider context in terms of Britain, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia will also be taken into account. The research is based on a theoretical framework made up of three components; gender, power and moral politics. The role of gender will be looked at through the existence of the double standard and the prostitute. Power and the existing relations between the colonies and the colonisers will be looked at by addressing the issue of race, superiority and the exportation of the colonial mindset. Moral politics will be analysed through the discussion of purity campaigns, women’s role in society and the medical aspect of politics. Within this thematic framework, the focus of the study will then move to the Cape Colony and the existence of regularity practices there. This study seeks to establish the ways in which regulation developed at the Cape and in doing so hopes to contribute to the existing historiography.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op die aanloop tot en die daaropvolgende reaksies ten opsigte van regulatoriese sekspraktyke, waarvan die bekendste die Aansteeklike Siektes Wette van 1869 en 1885 was. Daar word na die bestaan van veneriese siekte as ‘n koloniale epidemie gekyk. Die breër konteks van Brittanje, Indië, Hong Kong, Singapoer en Australië word ook in ag geneem. Die navorsing is gebaseer op ‘n teoretiese raamwerk van drie komponente: geslagtelikheid (“gender”) , mag en morele politiek. Die rol van geslagtelikheid word betrag na gelang die bestaan van dubbele standaarde en die prostituut. Mag en die bestaande verhoudinge tussen die koloniseerders en die wat gekoloniseer, word aangespreek deur te let op die kwessie van ras, meerderwaardigheid en die toepassing van ‘n koloniale denkpatroon. Morele politiek word ontleed deur te let op die bespreking van kuisheid kampanjes, vroue se rol in die samelewing en die mediese aspekte van politiek. Binne hierdie teoretiese raamwerk word die bestaan van regulatoriese praktyke in die Kaapkolonie bespreek. Die studie poog om vas te stel op welke wyses regulatoriese praktyke in die Kaapkolonie ontwikkel het en sodoende word gepoog om ‘n bydrae tot die bestaande historiografie te maak.
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Dabney, Jonathan Dickinson. "Identifying Victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in a Juvenile Custody Setting." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/305.
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Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) is a severe form of child sexual exploitation. Thus far, DMST studies have been qualitative or relied on secondary data. There has been no quantitative attempt to directly identify victims in a methodical way in order to determine the prevalence of DMST at a local level or the nature and strengths of its correlates. The present study used a three-tiered screening process to identify victims of DMST in a juvenile detention center. All youth taken into custody over a three and a half month period (N = 738) received a short assessment to identify those most at risk and in need of additional screening. During the study, six youth were identified as DMST victims and statistically significant differences were found between youth referred for additional screening (N = 47) and youth who were not. The results suggest that detention and probation staff identified the presence of DMST risk factors in youth screen interviews and were making referral decisions based on the presence of those risk factors. Practical implications of the findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.