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Maree, JE, and SCD Wright. "Sexual and menstrual practices: Risks for cervic cancer." Health SA Gesondheid, 2007. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000858.
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Cervix cancer is the cancer that causes most female deaths in South Africa. Little is known about the sexual and
menstrual practices in high-risk communities in South Africa. Knowledge of the risks inherent in these practices
might lead to changed behaviour. The purpose of this study was to investigate if there are inherent risk factors for
cervix cancer in the Black women’s sexual and menstrual practices that could result in an increased incidence to
provide an evidence base for future interventions. The design of the study was an exploratory, descriptive, contextual,
quantitative survey. The context of the study was two urban areas in the Tshwane Metropolis. The target
population was women from the age of 18 years in Ga-Rankuwa and Soshanguve extension 12. The sampling
method used was convenient sampling (n = 279). A structured interview was conducted due to the high rate of
illiteracy found amongst the women. The data were summarised using descriptive statistics. The results of the
study highlight several risks that could increase the women’s chance to develop cervix cancer. The identified risks
are inherent in their socio-economic situation, knowledge and awareness of cervix cancer, and practices during
menstruation.
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Maddocks, Katherine Louise. "Biphobia in sport : sexual identity and exclusionary practices." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7494.
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Research in the field of bisexuality has identified that bisexuals experience a unique kind of phobia, in that phobic responses to their sexual preferences appear from both mainstream and LGBT communities. However, little research in the UK has been conducted within the arena of sport culture to cater for the particular welfare needs of bisexual athletes. As an additional consequence, there is little theorisation of bisexuality available within the context of sport sociology. This research contributes to debates in the politics of identity by exploring a fairly new landscape within sport culture using a Foucauldian analysis of power. Discourse analyses have been utilised to interpret thirteen semi-structured interviews conducted with British athletes on the topics of bi-invisibility and the general problem of homophobia. This research also contributes to discussions concerning the mobilisation of power through discourse – certain discursive practices function to legitimize normative over non-normative sexualities and queer/fluid/bisexual identities are further stigmatized and othered. The main findings suggest that exclusions are mobilised most effectively, ironically, through sport cultural practices of inclusion, in that they are almost exclusively sexual identity-based. Additionally, this study offers a theoretical explanation for the peripheralisation of bisexuality in sport culture which can shed new light on bisexual theory in mainstream culture. It makes important suggestions as to the new directions future research can take in order to advance the current knowledge bases concerning the effects of bantering. This research proposes that practices of bantering can be just as marginalising as those of bullying. In the resultant climate of covert exclusions, organizational sporting bodies could benefit from paying close attention to the disempowering effects of biphobic and homophobic language, whether humorously intended or otherwise. This is with particular respect to youth footballing academies and spectator communities.
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Polzer, Michael. "Alcohol, tobacco, and sexual practices a corralational study /." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999polzerm.pdf.
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Hicks, Jessica Maria. "Elucidating Unconscious Drivers in Clandestine Sexual Practices| Means and Methods for Ego-Syntonic Dynamic Sexual Consent." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13807668.
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This hermeneutical research presents correlations between unconscious trauma responses and resultant sexual desire and behavior. Trauma reactions include reenactment, repetition compulsion, reverse reenactment, fawning, and dissociation. Clandestine sexual practices are often conducted surreptitiously, may co-occur with sexual paraphilia, and may include: infidelity; anonymous and group sex; pornography, cybersex, and virtual reality sex; sex with dolls and robots; and prostitution, strip clubs, and sex workers. The American Psychiatric Association’s criteria for pathology are explored along with sex-positive psychology’s position on the role of consent in diagnosing paraphilic disorder. Clinical manifestations of sexual distress including paraphilic and physiological disorders, sexually transmitted infections, sexual addiction, and related somatic and mood disorders are considered. Theories of ego-syntonia, ego-dystonia, and sexual consent are examined. Clinical applications include psychoeducation on unconscious trauma responses, a depth psychological approach to sexual content, explication of the original dynamic sexual consent theory and assessment tool, and frameworks for ego-syntonic sexuality.
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Watson, Deborah. "Treatment practices of childhood sexual abuse: A developmental psychopathology perspective." ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/628.
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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) occurs in up to 9.9 % of the general population. Clinical implications of CSA are lasting and warrant treatment utilizing suitable approaches. Although the developmental psychopathology model encourages clinicians to evaluate disorders in the context of risk/protective factors, cultural issues and development, there is a gap in current research regarding the utilization of developmental theory among clinicians working with this population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine consistent patterns in treatment practices employed by therapists with CSA patients. The primary research question in this study was to determine how closely therapists' actual treatment practice with CSA females paralleled the developmental psychopathology model. The study utilized a grounded theory approach to generate a model of practice drawn from structured interviews with 20 therapists recruited through a snowballing sample. A sequence of open, axial and selective coding of these data revealed three themes including empowerment, consistency and support. Results indicate most participants were trained in developmental theory and, developed model based skills over time while intuitively utilizing this model and that progressing clients had therapists that utilized this model. Recommendations include required undergraduate training in this model. This information will contribute to the existing literature on developmental theory and, can enhance social change initiatives through increased reliance on therapist intuition which in turn can produce patient care more aligned with developmental needs. In addition this information can be used for the development of effective model based interventions and preventions so as to decrease CSA's harmful societal impact.
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CARVALHO, CÍNTIA DE SOUSA. "AMONG THEMSELVES, THE UNSPOKEN AND PROHIBITED: SEXUAL HEALTH OF YOUNG WOMEN WITH EMOTIONAL-SEXUAL PRACTICES WITH WOMEN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17109@1.
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FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRONa presente investigação objetivou-se analisar a trajetória afetivo-sexual de mulheres jovens com práticas afetivo-sexuais com mulheres, tendo como foco os cuidados e os sentidos construídos acerca da saúde sexual. Dessa forma, este trabalho de pesquisa justifica-se por meio de duas questões centrais: a primeira se refere à necessidade de se mapear as linhas de força que possibilitaram que a experiência de mulheres com práticas afetivo-sexuais com mulheres fosse tomada de modo tão discreto para se pensar as especificidades de saúde; a segunda se refere ao que a Psicologia pode contribuir ao campo tema, visto as constatações epidemiológicas dos riscos que acometem estas mulheres, de modo que se possa oferecer subsídios para se compreender os discursos e sentidos obscurecidos nos dados de saúde. Sendo assim, o trabalho em questão foi realizado por meio do que denominamos de encontros de (conversa)ação com sete mulheres jovens com práticas afetivo-sexuais com mulheres, entre 18 e 30 anos, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e com oito médicos ginecologistas. Os dados apontam que com exceção das mulheres inseridas no movimento social LGBT, a prevenção no ato sexual não é uma questão para as participantes. Esta postura tem relações com a forma com que o tema é produzido pelo discurso médico, em que a ausência de informações científicas mais consistentes acerca dos riscos de infecção possibilita que tais taxas sejam tomadas como inexpressivas. Podemos analisar que a participação do discurso institucionalizado tem papel importante na inserção da questão da saúde sexual deste público.
In the present investigation aimed to analyze the trajectory of emotional-sexual practices of young women with emotional-sexual women, focusing on the care and constructed meanings about sexual health. Thus, this research is justified by two main questions: the first refers to the need to map the lines of force that enabled the experience of women with emotional-sexual practices with women being taken so as discreet to think about the specific health and the second refers to what psychology can contribute to the camp theme, since the findings of epidemiological risks that affect these women, so that it can provide insight to understand the words and senses obscured in the data health. Thus, the work in question was performed by means of what we call meetings (talk)action with seven young women with emotional-sexual practices with women between 18 and 30, in Rio de Janeiro, and with eight Gynecologists Doctors. The data indicate that with the exception of women included in the LGBT social movement, preventing the sexual act is not an issue for participants. This attitude has relations with the way the subject is produced by the medical discourse, in the absence of scientific information more consistent about the risks of infection allows such fees shall be taken as meaningless. We consider that the participation of institutionalized discourse has an important role in the insertion of the issue of sexual health in this state.
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Galli, Rafael Alves. "Roteiros sexuais de transexuais e travestis e seus modos de envolvimento sexual-afetivo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-05082013-151002/.
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As diversas facetas da sexualidade estão se tornando cada vez mais visíveis na sociedade atual e duas categorias que começam a ganhar espaço e visibilidade na contemporaneidade são as das transexuais e das travestis. Transexuais são pessoas que não se identificam com seus genitais biológicos (e suas atribuições socioculturais) podendo, às vezes, utilizar da cirurgia de transgenitalização para construir suas expressões de gêneros em consonância com seu bem estar biopsicossocial e político; enquanto travestis são pessoas que se identificam com as imagens e estilos de gêneros (masculinos e femininos) contrários ao seu sexo biológico (machos e fêmeas), que desejam e se apropriam de indumentárias e adereços dessas estéticas; realizam com frequência a transformação de seus corpos por meio da ingestão de hormônios e/ou da aplicação de silicone industrial, assim como, pelas cirurgias de correção estética e de implante de próteses, o que lhes permitem se situar dentro de uma condição agradável de bem estar biopsicossocial. Diversos estudos têm sido realizados, tendo essas pessoas como alvo. No entanto, são poucos os que focalizam as necessidades, desejos e fantasias das mesmas no que tange à esfera sexual. Este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a vida sexual de travestis e transexuais, dando ênfase às suas práticas e roteiros sexuais. A pesquisa tem enfoque metodológico qualitativo e utiliza a teoria dos roteiros sexuais de Gagnon como referencial teórico. Os dados foram colhidos mediante a aplicação de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas. Foram entrevistadas 15 pessoas, de 19 a 58 anos, entre travestis, transexuais que já realizaram a cirurgia de redesignação sexual e transexuais que não a realizaram. As entrevistas aconteceram em situação face a face e foram audiogravadas. Também foi utilizado o diário de campo para anotações do pesquisador. Posteriormente, essas foram transcritas integral e literalmente, constituindo o corpus da pesquisa. Os achados foram sistematizados, de modo a capturar os modos de organização da vida sexual, os tipos de práticas e os roteiros sexuais, além dos desejos, fantasias, ações e relações que as circunscrevem. Pode-se notar a incorporação de diversos discursos pertencentes à cultura ocidental, em especial a cultura brasileira, sendo os quatro principais: o discurso do gênero, o do amor romântico, o médicocientífico e o erótico. Alguns dos aspectos desses discursos são incorporados fielmente aos roteiros, enquanto outros sofrem improvisações de cada colaboradora. Esses discursos são usados para legitimar a condição feminina de cada uma delas, assim como, para construir suas visões do sexo e de mundo. No nível interpessoal, foram caracterizadas relações unilaterais em diversos níveis e o elemento de sedução como constituinte dos roteiros das colaboradoras profissionais do sexo. As práticas de penetração (sexo vaginal e anal) foram as mais enfatizadas nos discursos, seguidas do sexo oral em detrimento de beijos e carícias, que apesar de pouco referidos, foram mencionados como de extrema importância. Acredita-se que este estudo poderá trazer contribuições relevantes para a compreensão das singularidades da vida sexual de transexuais e travestis, assim como para o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas de saúde focalizadas nas questões sexuais dessas pessoas.The many facets of sexuality are becoming more visible in society today and two categories that are gaining visibility in contemporary space are transsexuals and travestis. Transsexuals are people who do not identify with their biological genitalia (and their sociocultural assignments) and can, sometimes, use the reassignment surgery to build their expressions of gender in line with their biopsychosocial and political welfare; while travestis are people who identify with the images and styles of genders (masculine and feminine) contrary to their biological sex (male and female), who wish and appropriate costumes and props of such aesthetic; who perform often transformations on their bodies through ingestion of hormones and/or the application of industrial silicone, as well as by cosmetic surgery and prostheses implants, which allow them to be located within a pleasant welfare biopsychosocial condition. Several studies have been conducted with these people as their target. However, there are few that focus on the needs, desires and fantasies of this people regarding the sexual sphere. This study aims to know the sex lives of travestis and transsexuals, emphasizing their sexual practices and sexual scripts. The research has a qualitative methodological approach and uses the Gagnons theory of sexual scripts. Data were collected through the application of semistructured interviews. We interviewed 15 people, with ages between 19 and 58 years old, between travestis, transsexuals who already underwent sex reassignment surgery and transsexuals who didnt undergo the surgery. The interviews were carried out in face to face situation and were audio recorded. The notes filed of the researcher were also used. Later, the interviews were transcribed in full and literally, constituting the corpus of research. The findings were organized in order to capture the ways of organization of sexual life, the kinds of practices and sexual scripts, as well as desires, fantasies, actions and relations that circumscribe them. It may be noted the incorporation of several speeches belonging to Western culture, especially the Brazilian culture, with the top four being: the gender speech, the romantic love speech, the medical-scientific speech and the erotic speech. Some aspects of these speeches are faithfully embedded into the scripts, while others suffer improvisations of each collaborator. These speeches are used to legitimize the feminine condition of each collaborator, as well as to build their visions of sex and of the world. At the interpersonal level, unilateral relationships were characterized at various levels and the element of seduction as a constituent of the scripts of the sex workers collaborators. Penetration practices (vaginal and anal sex) were more emphasized in speeches, followed by oral sex instead of kisses and caresses, which although rarely reported, were quoted as extremely important. It is believed that this study will bring significant contributions to the understanding of the singularities of the sexual life of transsexuals and travestis, as well as for the development of public health policies focused on sexual issues of these people.
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Mankayi, Nyameka. "Constructions of masculinity, sexuality and risky sexual practices of male soldiers." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/2947.
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Mphaya, Joyce Caroline. "HIV Prevalence Determinants Among Young People in Zimbabwe: Sexual Practices Analysis." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4011.
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A decline in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rates have been observed among females ages 15 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years in Zimbabwe between 2005 and 2010. However, for males 15 to 19 years, rising trends were observed, whereas for males ages 20 to 24 years, rates fluctuated between 2005 and 2011. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine relationships between sexual behaviors and practices and HIV prevalence among young males and females ages 15 to 24 years in Zimbabwe. Guided by constructs of proximate determinants framework, extracted data from two National Demographic Health surveys of 2005/06 and 2010/11 were analyzed using chi square and binary logistic regression. This study revealed that sexual practices, relationship status, and education status increase the odds of being HIV positive differently among 15 to 19-year-olds and 20 to 24-year-olds based on gender and changes through time. Significant relationship existed between HIV positive serostatus and total number of life time partners among females 15 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years; lack of condom use among males 20 to 24 years in 2005/06; early sexual debut and lower education status among females 20 to 24 years; and being widowed, separated, or divorced among males and females 20 to 24 years in 2010/11. The Odds of being HIV positive for males ages 15 to 19 years was not predicted by sexual practice, creating a need for future study. This study can contribute to positive social change by providing information about the associations between HIV serostatus and the assessed risk factors, which may help promote awareness about HIV infection risk, thereby helping develop and implement targeted public health interventions to reduce the burden of HIV.
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McKinney, Molly A. "Perceptions and Practices of University Sexual Violence Prevention Activities Coordinators: A National Survey." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1493300384763405.
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Stinson, Jill D. "Self-Regulation and the Treatment of Sexual Behavior Problems. Mobilizing the Evidence Into Best Practices for Reducing Sexual Reoffending." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7979.
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Adam, Akers D. "THE SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AND PRACTICES OF PEOPLE WITH OBESITY: A PILOT STUDY." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1342030663.
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Carter, Amanda N. "Feminist Women’s Health Movement Practices, Mindfulness, Sexual Body Esteem, and Genital Satisfaction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/403.
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There is a significant issue in society today regarding the lack of knowledge about and positive regard attributed to women’s bodies, but more specifically female genitalia. This is detrimental to women in that it causes us to see ourselves in a negative light, or to overly sexualize certain aspects of ourselves, which may lead to severe psychological damage (American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, 2010). The 1970’s Women’s Health Movement presented a way for women to get to know their own bodies in a way that was private from society in order to make their own judgments free from the pressures and input of the larger public: vaginal self-examinations. This study proposed a modified exam, a genital self-exam, as a way to counteract the negative attitudes projected on women’s genitals by giving women a chance to examine and decide for themselves. Participants were encouraged to practice mindfulness, a mental state achieved through focusing one’s awareness on the present moment while calmly accepting one’s feelings, during the exam as accounts of the 1970’s vaginal exams suggest a mindfulness-like attitude was also adopted during exams. This was done by randomly assigning participants to either complete a self-exam or to not and then measuring genital self-image and satisfaction, sexual body esteem, and mindfulness. The results were largely non-significant, save a few interesting minor findings. However, there is evidence to suggest a biased sample; recommendations for further research in this area are suggested.
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Allen, Louisa Elizabeth. "'Exploring relationships' : a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244881.
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The objective of this research is to examine the relationships between young people's sexual knowledge, sexual subjectivities and (hetero)sexual practices. It also aims to investigate how young people's articulation and experiences of their sexual knowledge, subjectivities and practices are gendered. A further goal is to re-examine what is theorised as a 'gap' between young people's knowledge and practice. The research sample consists of 515 New Zealanders aged 17-19 years drawn from schools and community training programmes within the Auckland and Hamilton regions. A feminist research methodology is employed utilising a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in order to explore different narratives produced in diverse research contexts. These contexts include 17 focus groups, 12 individual interviews, 6 couples engaging in a specially designed 'activity', and the distribution of 411 questionnaires. Contribution is made to the literature on sexuality education by re-visiting the 'gap equation' so that primacy is given to young people's own construction of the concepts of 'knowledge' and 'practice' and the perceived relationships between them. The research methods employed afford young people agency by enabling them to review this 'gap' from their own perspective. Young people's agency is also revealed by in-depth exploration of their sexual subjectivities and particularly how their subjectivities are constituted through dominant discourses of heterosexuality. How alternative sexual subject positions are negotiated by young people, and the contexts and factors which make this possible, are also investigated. The research extends our understanding of sexual subjectivity by taking account of young people's 'materiality', as it is expressed in their talk about their experience of their bodies in relation to sexuality. The research thus reveals how the processes of embodiment and disembodiment are experienced differently by young men and women and identifies another bodily state known as dys-embodiment. The gendered nature of these corporeal states are explained through use of the concept of the 'imaginary body'. On the basis of the sample, the findings suggest there is a difference between young people's construction of sexual knowledge and how it has been conceptualised by sexuality educators and academics. Young people's gendered relationships to knowledge and the implications these have for their (hetero)sexual practice are described. Subjects in this study talk about knowledge in two ways; as information derived from secondary sources such as sexuality education and knowledge gleaned from personal sexual experience. Hierarchies can be seen within and between such types of sexual knowledge in terms of the status young people afford, and interest they display, in them. Sexual practice as conceptualised by young people appears not to simply involve 'correct' sexual behaviour and safer sex practices, but also a 'discourse of erotics'. The research illustrates this discourse by exploring what young people do and do not find pleasurable about sexual activity, along with details about their relationships. The 'sexualisation' of power within the context of a couple . relationship is described and an analytic framework which traces 'equal', 'mediated' and 'coercive' power is devised. Such findings have important ramifications for the future design of sexuality education programmes. They point to the need for further exploration of how such insights about sexual knowledge, subjectivities and practices might be translated into effective sexuality education programme design.
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Karnehm, Amy Lynn. "The Effects of Parental Practices on Adolescent Sexual Initiation Prior to Age 16." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363691732.
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Kelley, Shakina. "Sexual Satisfaction in Relationships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2020/schedule/9.
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Sexual satisfaction is a major component of human behavior. Individuals in relationships have specific demands for sexual satisfaction. Relationships and societal trends may impact the standards for sexual performance. The effects of performance can result in negative transitions in relationships. Therefore, Individuals may also consider outside variables in addition to relationship status, length of relationships, sexual orientation, gender-role, and religiousness. This poster presentation will be based on a literature review. The review reveals positive effects of religiousness on sexual satisfaction for those married more than ten years. In comparison with social behaviors, gender-roles are not influenced by traditional or non-traditional beliefs. When social norms and sexual orientation are paired in correlation with satisfaction in relationships, gay men and lesbians rate higher than heterosexuals in the area of sexual satisfaction. When long-term and short-term relationships are measured based on sexual satisfaction, results indicate long-term relationships are successful due to active communication and no sexual dysfunctions.
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Hoang, Young-ju. "Soul, body, and house : a feminist critique of contemporary state practices in Korea." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310317.
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Odera, Doreen Awino. "Sexual Health Perspectives of Pastoral Adolescent Girls in Samburu County." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31646.
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Teenage girls from the Turkana pastoral community in Northern Kenya have varying views of sexuality. Some parents choose to send their daughters to school creating disparate levels of knowledge about their bodies and sexual health. To better evaluate these differences, girls (13-18 years) were asked to develop body maps, a methodological technique that enables verbal and visual data collection. Interviews and participant observations were also used to gather data. This research involved a total of 33 participants and included both school going and non-school going girls.
Triangulation of data from Interviews, participant observation, and body mapping provided multiple angles into the female pastoralist’s life experiences. The study demonstrated the heterogeneity and disparities that are present within pastoralists population in Samburu county, providing a more detailed understanding for future medical anthropological studies. The research furthered anthropological inquiry methodologically by introducing body mapping as a complement to conducting traditional ethnographic research.
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Brito, Elissandra Maria Conceição de. "A diversidade sexual no contexto escolar: Discursividades em narrativas docentes." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2015. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8943.
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Sexual diversity is a relevant issue at the center of attention of researches conducted both in education and in other related to social sciences and humanities. In Brazil, the issues related to sexual orientation were materialized in the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs) in the form of transversal theme, in volume 10 Cultural Plurality and sexual orientation to be developed by all pedagogical subjects and activities of school. The overall objective of this study is to investigate the discursive positions of teachers in the municipality of Itapororoca-PB, face the situations experienced relating to issues of sexuality in everyday school life. It is a qualitative ethnographic research, enlists in applied linguistics and theoretically-oriented by discourse analysis, Orlandi (2003), by the theorizing of Foucault (1988) and Louro (1997). The data resulting from the questionnaire were analyzed, these data were supplemented through circle of conversations with teachers. The analysis of the narratives of the participants educators of the investigation demonstrated the need for actions that provide the live (live together) with cultural diversity, in particular the issues related to sexual diversity, pointed out the teachers’ difficulty in dealing with these issues in the school routine. Among these difficulties are: the taboo that prevails in society, the perception conflicts, lack of time for a more effective dialogue with the student, lack of a deeper knowledge on the subject, difficult to identify whether the student's behavior, dress, mannerisms etc., are traces of their sexual orientation, among others presented results that support an intervention proposal for Portuguese language teachers. This study represented an epistemological challenge in seeking for new meaning in the look for the reinvention of social life.
A diversidade sexual é uma questão relevante, que está no centro das atenções de pesquisas realizadas, tanto no campo da educação, como em outros relativos às ciências sociais e humanas. No Brasil, as questões relacionadas a orientação sexual foram materializadas nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs), na forma do tema transversal, no volume 10, Pluralidade Cultural e orientação sexual a ser desenvolvido por todas as disciplinas e atividades pedagógicas da escola. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é investigar os posicionamentos discursivos de professores(as) do município de Itapororoca-PB, face as situações vivenciadas atinentes as questões de sexualidade no cotidiano escolar. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho etnográfico, inscreve-se na linguística aplicada e orientada teoricamente pela análise do discurso, Orlandi (2003), pelas teorizações de Foucault (1988) e Louro (1997). Foram analisados os dados gerados de questionários, e de roda de conversas com os professores. As análises das narrativas dos(as) educadores(as) demonstraram a necessidade de ações que proporcionem o con(viver) com a pluralidade cultural, em especial com as temáticas relacionadas à diversidade sexual, apontaram para a dificuldade dos professores em lidar com essas questões no cotidiano da escola. Entre as dificuldades assinaladas estão: o tabu que impera na sociedade, os conflitos de percepção, escassez de tempo para um diálogo mais efetivo com o aluno, falta de um conhecimento mais aprofundado sobre a temática, entre outros resultados apresentados, que embasam uma proposta de intervenção para professores/as de língua portuguesa. A pesquisa representou um desafio epistemológico, na busca de ressignificar o olhar em favor da reinvenção da vida social.
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Beger, Nico J. "Que(e)rying political practices in Europe tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2001. http://dare.uva.nl/document/60478.
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Stevens, Diane. "Let's talk about sex : social constructions of adolescent sexual practices and their potential for change." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405532.
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Bujra, Janet M. "Sex talk: Mutuality and power in the shadow of HIV/AIDS in Africa." University of Bradford, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3844.
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YesBids for mutuality in sexual partnerships are key to AIDS campaigning slogans such as `negotiate¿, `know your partner¿ and `use condoms¿. This paper explores the contradiction between more mutuality in sexual relations and the gender power politics that render such mutuality difficult to achieve in Africa, as well as the caricatures of `African sexuality¿ that have pervaded some of the literature. It looks at the new discourses of sexuality delivered via NGOs and the state as well as the ways in which customary silences about sex are being broken by ordinary people. It asks whether, given the threat of HIV infection, people are talking in new ways about sexual relationships, and how this talk is gendered. It also addresses the challenge to African feminism of sexuality discourses and how these need to be rethought in the context of AIDS. It concludes that the prospect of death by sex is transforming discourses, challenging customary sexual practice and putting gendered inequalities in question.
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Paparella, André J. "Sexual discourse and masculine intercourse : a qualitative study concerning the construction of a gay masculinity and its influences on male-to-male (safe- ) sexual practices /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsp2133.pdf.
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Cohen, Amanda. "Sexual Risk Behaviors: Who is Vulnerable? An Extensive Literature Review of Sexual Risk Practices and the Development of a Pamphlet for an At-Risk Community." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1265164147.
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Bryant, Joanne. "Sex, subjectivity and agency a life history study of women's sexual relations and practices with men /." University of Sydney. Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/575.
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This study explores women’s experiences of sex with men. It is based on qualitative data collected from eighteen life history interviews. Such an approach provides means for examining women’s sexual experiences over time. The study finds that women give meaning to their sexual experiences through two main discursive representations: the passive, “proper” and sexually obliging girlfriend or wife, and the active and “sexually equal” woman. However, these representations do not capture the entirety of women’s sexual experiences. The life history analysis demonstrates that women are not simply inscribed by discourse. Rather, they are embodied beings actively engaged in pursuing sexual identities. Central to the process is a relationship between the practice of sex and self-reflexivity over time. Finally, the study demonstrates how the process of gaining sexual subjectivity is shaped by the material conditions of women’s lives. For instance, the praxeological circumstances of women’s class or race are powerful in recasting discourses of feminine sexuality, the meanings women ascribe to them, their access to broader sexual experiences, and the kinds of relationships they have with their male partners.
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Hanzi, Roselyn. "Sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child through cultural practices in Zimbabwe: a human rights perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1214.
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"In Zimbabwe the sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child remains high. Recently the state has acknowledged the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child and has indicated the willingness to step up campaigns against it. This campaign, however, targets school children in primary and secondary schools. There has also been an increase of sexual abuse of children in schools by the teachers and other staff members. The family as an institution has facilitated child abuse and exploitation in Zimbabwe through cultural practices and customs as a survival tactic. Some commentators have directly linked the revival of these cultural practices to the economic crisis that has resulted in food shortages around the country. These traditional practices include the marriages of the child to older men in exchange for food or money known as kuzvarira, kuripa ngozi, or pledging a girl into marriage and virginity testing. Some of the practices are, however, not directly linked to the prevailing economic crisis, but are just practiced as a tradition like chiramu. These practices have become more common amongst the Shona, the largest tribe constituting at least 76% of the population, and predominantly patriarchal. Theorists of patriarchy have directed their attention to the subordinate status of women and found their explanation in the male need to dominate the female. Although Zimbabwe as a state has shown a commitment to protecting children against sexual abuse by enactment of laws criminalising involvement of the girl child in prostitution, incest and rape of girls, little has been done to ensure that forced and early marriages of the girl child are curtailed. Virginity testing is not criminalised and is also currently being practised in rural parts of the country on a wide scale. ... Chapter one introduces the problem of child sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child as a universal problem and gives a structure of the study. Chapter two discusses the concept of a child, sexual abuse and exploitation as a human rights problem. It analyses the protection of children under international human rights law. Chapter three gives a broad overview of the relationship between culture and children's rights. The role of the family will also be discussed as articulated in the human rights instruments. Chapter four highlights and discusses the cultural practices that result in sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child in Zimbabwe. The legal framework protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation and the shortcomings will be highlighted. The impact of such sexual abuse and exploitation on the overall development of the child will also be discussed. Chapter five makes recommendations by looking at the developments from other countries on the rights of the girl child and cultural practises that result in sexual abuse." -- Introduction.Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006.
Prepared under the supervision of Dr. B. Twinomugisha, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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Robinson, Tanya Marie. "The socio-emotional influence of sexual problems on young women : a social work investigation." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75030.
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English: At DISA-clinic the researcher found that young women between the ages of 16
and 25 are faced with various sexual problems. As a result the aim of this study
was to explore the socio-emotional influence of sexual problems on young
women. For the purpose of this study an exploratory research design was used
because little information was found on the socio-emotional influence of sexual
problems on young women in available literature.
A contribution can be made through exploring the socio-emotional influence that
sexual problems have on young women. Sexual problems for the purpose of this
study were organised in three main groups: Sexual dysfunctions; these include
Dyspareunia, Vaginismus, Anorgasmia. Unintended pregnancy; these include
abortion, adoption, early parenting. Sexually transmitted diseases and sexually
related diseases; these include HIV infection and AIDS, Gonorrhea, Syphilis,
Herpes.
It was essential in this study to use a qua I itative research approach because the
researcher wanted to explore the socio-emotional influence of sexual problems
on young women and formulate a holistic understanding of this phenomenon.
This qualitative study consequently presented the reader with an understanding
of the socio-emotional influence that sexual problems have on young women.
The data collection method which was used is document study. In this study
personal letters of young women received between June 2002 and February
2003 were included. The researcher gathered one hundred and fifteen personal
letters of young women that fitted the sample criteria. Seven main themes and
related themes were identified in the personal letters and the researcher
analyzed the information according to Creswell's spiral model.
After these themes were identified it can be emphasised that there is definitely a
sense of similarity between the influence of the three main groups of sexual
problems on the socio-emotional functioning of young women. Consequently the
researcher states that from the above seven themes that were identified, it
became clear that various sexual problems influence young women's socioemotional
functioning in a similar manner.
Further research on preventing the rising statistics of sexual problems under
young women is recommended.Afrikaans: Die navorser het by DISA-kliniek gevind dat jong vrouens tussen die ouderdom van 16 en 25 gekonfronteer word met verskeie seksuele probleme. Gevolglik is die doel van die studie om die sosio-emosionele invloed van seksuele probleme op jong vrouens te eksploreer. Vir die doel van hierdie betrokke studie is 'n eksplorerende navorsingsontwerp gebruik omrede min informasie gevind is ten opsigte van die sosio-emosionele invloed van seksuele probleme op jong vrouens in beskikbare literatuur. 'n Bydrae kan gemaak word deur die sosio-emosionele invloed wat seksuele probleme op jong vrouens het, te eksploreer. Seksuele probleme is vir die doeleindes van die studie in drie hoofgroepe georganiseer: Seksuele disfunksies; wat insluit Dyspareunia, Vaginismus en Anorgasmia. Onbeplande swangerskappe; wat insluit aborsie, aanneming en vroee ouerskap. Seksueel oordraagbare siektes en seksueel verwante siektes; wat insluit MIV infeksie en VIGS, Gonorrhea, Sifilis en Herpes. Dit was essensieel in die studie om 'n kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering te volg omrede die navorser die sosio-emosionele invloed van seksuele probleme op jong vrouens wou eksploreer en 'n holistiese begrip van die betrokke fenomene wou kry. Die kwalitatiewe studie verskaf die leser gevolglik met 'n begrip van die sosio-emosionele invloed wat seksuele probleme op jong vrouens het. Die data-insamelingsmetode wat gebruik is, is dokumentanalise. In die studie is anonieme, persoonlike briewe van jong vrouens ingesluit wat tussen Junie 2002 en F ebruarie 2003 ontvang is. Die navorser het een honderd en vyftien briewe van jong vrouens volgens die vasgestelde steekproefkriteria geselekteer. Sewe hooftemas en verwante temas is geidentifiseer vanuit die anonieme persoonlike briewe en die navorser het die data volgens Creswell se spiraal model geanaliseer. Na identifisering van die temas kan klem daarop geplaas word dat daar definitief 'n ooreenkoms bestaan tussen die invloed wat die drie hoofgroepe seksuele probleme op die sosio-emosionele funksionering van jong vrouens het. Gevolglik maak die navorser die aanname dat vanuit die geidentifiseerde sewe temas, dit duidelik is dat verskeie seksuele probleme 'n soortgelyke invloed op die sosio-emosionele funksionering van jong vrouens het. Verdere navorsing op die voorkoming van die stygende statistieke van seksuele probleme onder jong vrouens, word aanbeveel.
Dissertation (MSD (Play Therapy)--University of Pretoria, 2003.
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Schwartz, Elizabeth Anne. "Mothers and Fathers, Churches and Schools: Formal and Informal Sources of Sexual Information as They Relate to Emerging Adult Women’s Safe Sex Practices and Sexual-esteem." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27692.
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This study sought to explore which individuals and institutions 455 emerging adult women recalled as having provided them with sexual information. Independent-samples t tests were run to explore how these sources of information related to the emerging adult women’s safe sex practices and sexual-esteem. Most common sources of sexual information included mothers, peers, and high school courses, with approximately 28% of participants reporting no individual sources, and approximately 32% of participants reporting no institutional sources. Receiving sexual information from a sibling was related to more frequent safe sex practices, and receiving sexual information from a middle school course was related to higher sexual-esteem scores. These results contribute to the discussion of how best to support the sexual health and wellness of emerging adult women, and have implications for couple and family therapists working with young women and their families.
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Mutebi, Simon [Verfasser]. "Subjective Experiences and Practices of Sexual Performance Concerns Among Young Men in Mwanza City, Tanzania / Simon Mutebi." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1226154530/34.
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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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Mwolo, Martha Peter. "Girls as minorities: norms, social processes and practices and their impact on girls' sexual health in Tanzania." Doctoral thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/5075.
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Tese apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências Sociais, especialidade em Estudos de MinoriasA vulnerabilidade dos raparigas às ameaças à sua saúde sexual é um assunto que não tem recebido a devida atenção até à data. O presente estudo foi estabelecido para investigar os processos sociais e práticas influenciando os comportamentos sexuais de risco, gravidezes indesejadas e transmissão de VIH junto das raparigas na Tanzânia. O estudo começou com extensa revisão da literatura científica para mapear a sexualidade adolescente e a saúde. O objetivo foi analisar os factores subjacentes aos comportamentos sexuais de risco, gravidezes indesejadas e transmissão de VIH junto das raparigas, e especificamente para identificar os significados sociais sobre género e sexualidade adolescente relevantes na sociedade mais ampla e avaliar as implicações na saúde das raparigas. A segunda parte é constituída por um estudo empírico, que foi realizado, principalmente em Dar-es-Salaam, com quatro organizações não governamentais. Clara tendências surgiram a partir do presente estudo para indicar que os comportamentos sexuais de risco, gravidezes indesejadas e transmissão de VIH junto das raparigas são intimamente relacionados com formas involuntárias ou parcialmente involuntárias de reprodução das relações de poder, significados sociais, códigos morais, com o estigma e o silêncio associados à sexualidade das raparigas e à sua saúde sexual no seio de instituições-chave, neste caso normas jurídicas (incluindo políticas) e as organizações não governamentais. Consequentemente, os comportamentos sexuais de meninas são ocultados, à medida em que se envolvem em relações sexuais discretas. Elas não podem usar os instrumentos disponíveis, as informações sobre a saúde sexual e os serviços oferecidos, por medo de deixar conhecer o facto de serem sexualmente activas. Embora possam ter já uma experiência da vida, ter na sua posse e/ou negociar o uso do preservativo é susceptível de prejudicar a sua respeitabilidade perante parceiros sexuais masculinos. Elas podem igualmente ser punidas pelos pais, tutores e professores, algo que não é necessariamente aplicável aos rapazes. O preservativo e uso do preservativo estão intimamente associados, para as raparigas, com a falta de confiança, com a infidelidade e com a promiscuidade. O estudo conclui que as normas jurídicas (incluindo políticas) e as organizações não governamentais não devem reforçar os significados sociais associados com a identidade de género e a sexualidade adolescente, ou outros elementos que colocam em risco a saúde das raparigas. Todos os esforços para proteger os direitos das raparigas relacionados com a saúde através de normas jurídicas e de políticas, incluindo a prevenção de comportamentos de risco sexual, gravidezes indesejadas e transmissão de VIH, tem que ter simultaneamente uma dimensão individual e uma dimensão coletiva.
Adolescent girls’ vulnerability to sexual health threats is a subject that has not received adequate attention to date. The present study was set out to investigate the social processes and practices influencing sexual risk behaviors, unintended pregnancies, and HIV transmission among adolescent girls in Tanzania. The study began with an extensive revision of scientific literature in order to map adolescent sexuality and health. The aim was to examine the underlying factors of sexual risk behaviors, unintended pregnancies, and HIV transmission among adolescent girls, and specifically, to identify the social meanings about gender and adolescent sexuality relevant in the wider society, and assess implications on girls’ health. The second part constituted an empirical study which was conducted, mainly in Dar es Salaam, with four non-governmental organizations. Clear trends emerged from the present study to indicate that sexual risk behaviors, u nintended pregnancies, and HIV transmission among adolescent girls are closely related to unintended and partially intended reproduction of the power relations, social meanings, moral codes, stigma and silence attached to adolescent girls’ sexuality and sexual health within key institutions, in this case laws (including policies), and non-governmental organizations. Consequently, girls’ sexual behaviors go underground as they engage in discreet sexual relations. They may not use available tools and sexual health information and services offered, for fear of being known to be sexually active. Although they may have life skills, carrying and/or negotiating condom use is likely to damage their respectability before male sexual partners. They can also be punished by parents, guardians and teachers, and the same does not necessarily apply to adolescent boys. Condom and condom use are closely associated, for girls, with lack of trust, with infidelity and with promiscuity. The study concludes that, laws (including policies) and non-governmental organizations should not reinforce the identified social meanings about gender identity and adolescent sexuality, and any other elements which jeopardize girls’ health. All efforts for protecting girls’ rights related to health in laws and policies, including, prevention of sexual risk behaviors, unintended pregnancies, and HIV transmission, have to have both an individual dimension and a collective dimension.
La vulnérabilité des filles aux menaces pour la santé sexuelle est un sujet qui n'a pas reçu une attention suffisante à ce jour. La présente étude a été conçue pour approfondir les processus sociaux et pratiques influençant les comportements sexuels de risque, les grossesses non désirées et la transmission du VIH chez les filles en Tanzanie. L'étude commence par un examen le plus ample possible de la littérature scientifique pour situer la sexualité des adolescents et la santé. L'objectif y est d'analyser les facteurs qui sous-tendent les comportements sexuels de risque, les grossesses non désirées et la transmission du VIH chez les filles, et plus précisément d’identifier les significations sociales quant au genre et à la sexualité des adolescents dans la société en général, et d'évaluer leurs répercussions sur la santé des filles. La deuxième partie se compose d'une étude empirique, effectuée principalement à Dar-es-Salaam, avec quatre organisations non gouvernementales. Des tendances claires se dégagent de cette étude, qui indiquent que les comportements sexuels à risque, les grossesses non désirées et la transmission du VIH chez les filles sont étroitement liés à des formes involontaires ou partiellement involontaires de reproduction des relations de pouvoir, à des significations sociales, à des codes moraux, à la stigmatisation et au silence associés à la sexualité et à la santé sexuelle des filles au sein des institutions-clé socialement, dans ce cas les normes juridiques (y compris les politiques) et les organisations non gouvernementales. En conséquence, le comportement sexuel des filles est occulté, tandis que ces dernières continuent à entretenir des relations sexuelles discrètes. Elles ne peuvent nullement utiliser les instruments disponibles, les informations sur la santé sexuelle et les services offerts, par crainte de faire connaitre qu’elles sont sexuellement actives. Bien qu’elles puissent avoir une certaine expérience de la vie, le fait de détenir et/ou de négocier l'utilisation du préservatif est susceptible de nuire à leur respectabilité face à des partenaires sexuels masculins. Elles peuvent également être punies par leurs parents, leurs tuteurs et leurs enseignants, chose qui n'est pas nécessairement applicable aux garçons. Le préservatif et l'utilisation du préservatif sont étroitement associés, pour les filles, avec le manque de confiance, l'infidélité et la promiscuité. L'étude conclut que les normes juridiques (y compris les politiques) et les organisations non gouvernementales ne devraient pas renforcer les significations sociales associées à l’identité de genre et à la sexualité des adolescentes, ou d'autres éléments qui mettent en danger la santé des filles. Tous les efforts pour protéger les droits des filles par le biais de normes juridiques relatives à la santé et de politiques, y compris la prévention des comportements sexuels de risque, les grossesses non désirées et la transmission du VIH, doivent avoir simultanément une dimension individuelle et une dimension collective.
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Day, Natalie Louise. "A sociological analysis of the sexual learning processes and practices of heterosexual young women in Northeast Brazil." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3468.
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The Brazilian Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, introduced in 1996, recommend the coverage of sex education within all disciplines, throughout a young person’s education. However, implementation is often inconsistent, teachers frequently lack training and resources, and content continues to be largely biological. This research investigates this apparent “gap” between ostensibly progressive sex education policy, and the realities of young women’s sex education experiences. It focuses on how young women in Lençóis, Bahia, Northeast Brazil understand the role of the State in their sexual learning processes, and how State-sanctioned sex education interacts with local sexual culture and informal sex education practices in their everyday lives. This research contributes a semi-rural, interior study, based on young women’s experiences, to the literature on sex education in Brazil, which has predominantly centred on urban, coastal young people’s lives, and included young people’s perspectives only infrequently. The thesis prioritises local sexual culture in the study of sex education, and promotes an understanding of the State as active at the level of the everyday. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-seven women aged 18–29, and contextualised with additional material. Findings indicated that lençoense sex education lacked uniformity, was viewed largely negatively, and seen as a localised process, mostly dependent on individual teachers. State-sanctioned sex education provided powerful messages of risk and risk-reduction, responsibility and respectability, while other important themes were identified as “missing”. Participants often looked to “informal” sources to plug the gaps left by insufficient State-sanctioned sex education, and the enduring taboo of the topic in many lençoense homes.
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Schwartz, Elizabeth Anne. "Mothers and Fathers, Churches and Schools: Formal and Informal Sources of Sexual Information as They Relate to Emerging Adult Women?s Safe Sex Practices and Sexual-esteem." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27692.
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This study sought to explore which individuals and institutions 455 emerging adult women recalled as having provided them with sexual information. Independent-samples t tests were run to explore how these sources of information related to the emerging adult women?s safe sex practices and sexual-esteem. Most common sources of sexual information included mothers, peers, and high school courses, with approximately 28% of participants reporting no individual sources, and approximately 32% of participants reporting no institutional sources. Receiving sexual information from a sibling was related to more frequent safe sex practices, and receiving sexual information from a middle school course was related to higher sexual-esteem scores. These results contribute to the discussion of how best to support the sexual health and wellness of emerging adult women, and have implications for couple and family therapists working with young women and their families.
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Spain, Carolyn. "Practices and Policies in High Schools to Prevent Educator-to-Student sexual Misconduct: A Principal's Study of Knowledge and Experiences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33204/.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate high school policies and procedures that address educator sexual misconduct. High school principals completed an online questionnaire which addressed administrator knowledge of state and federal laws and regulations; knowledge of district policies and procedures; experience with educator sexual misconduct; training and communication available in their schools and school districts for staff, parents, and students; the policies and procedures in place in secondary schools to prevent educator sexual misconduct; and related problems that are reported to school administrators. Responses were compared by school size, community type, and Title I eligibility. The findings of the study revealed that principals feel they have knowledge of the federal and state laws and regulations, as well as the district policies and procedures. However, principals reported a lack of specific policies addressing sexual harassment and discrimination of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender students; training for students and teachers in recognizing and responding to sexual misconduct; and sexual misconduct related to students with disabilities. In addition, most principals stated that their schools have not surveyed students to determine the extent of sexual harassment on the campus. Principals of the largest schools and the urban and suburban schools were more actively involved in educator-to-student sexual misconduct investigations.
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Masaro, Cindy Louise. "Dating practices : the influence of context and the gendered nature of heterosexual relationships on women's sexual well-being." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51486.
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Limited attention has been paid to adult women’s sexual well-being despite their steadily rising rates of sexually-transmitted infections (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Two understudied areas that may affect women's sexual well-being are the changing context of dating and the gendered nature of heterosexual relationships. Internet technologies have become popular, yet little is known about how these technologies influence women's sexual risk. Additionally, few studies have addressed how conformity to gendered norms related to sexual activity and the expression of pleasure (i.e., orgasm during sex) influence women's sexual risk and well-being.
Analyses were undertaken of data collected from an online survey of 1,266 adult women living in the United States. Two models of sexual risk were hypothesized with associations between: (a) the modality and time spent communicating, the motivations and the pressure for sexual activity, and sexual risk and (b) sexual self-disclosure and communication about sexual risk. Multinomial logistic regression was used for the analyses. A third model examined women's sexual well-being in terms of faking orgasm. Binary logistic regression was used to examine predictors of faking orgasm including the importance of, and pressure to achieve orgasm, and the frequency of, and satisfaction with, orgasm.
Neither the modality nor time spent communicating was associated with sexual risk, however, the expectation to communicate trust and adherence to sexual scripts were associated. Discussion about past sexual behaviour (e.g., sexual positions, experiences) increased risk; yet, communication about STIs and HIV did not. The majority of women reported that they had faked orgasm during penile-vaginal intercourse. Perceived pressure to achieve an orgasm during this activity predicted the faking of orgasm.
The findings of this study indicate that women's sexual risk does not appear to be influenced by how they meet partners or by the modality and time spent communicating. Communication about STIs and HIV, does appear to decrease sexual risk. The gendered nature of heterosexual relationships is of particular importance for women's sexual well-being. Given the results of this study, women conforming to gendered expectations about sex are less likely to express what they find sexually pleasing.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Hinson, Sandy, and n/a. "An ethnography of teacher perceptions of cultural and institutional practices relating to sexual harassment in ACT high schools." University of Canberra. Education, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060724.141946.
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This two year, topic-oriented ethnography documents teacher perceptions of
cultural and institutional practices relating to sexual harassment in 12 co-educational,
government ACT high schools. Participants include over one hundred and forty
teachers, seventy eight of whom have contributed formal interviews.
Through analysis and triangulation of ethnographic interviews, participant
observation data and school and Departmental documents, the study identifies cultural
and institutional practices which, according to teacher perceptions, contribute to:
� encouraging sexual harassment;
� discouraging reports of sexual harassment; and
� discouraging implementation of sexual harassment policy.
Emerging cultural and institutional practices include blame attribution, silencing
and gender construction which contribute to the marginalisation of some female
teachers (in terms of their career); some female students (in terms of their education)
and some male students who are perceived to be "gay" (in terms of their friendship
groups).
The usefulness, limitations and capacity to explain sexual harassment of a range
of theoretical approaches are discussed. These approaches include Attribution, Role,
Reproduction and Feminist theories. It is argued that, although accounting for the
majority of sexual harassment, these theories are limited in their ability to fully account
for:
a) all kinds of sexual harassment practised in ACT high schools;
b) the relationship between sexual harassment and other kinds of harassment
in ACT high schools; and
c) the extent to which some women teachers appear to support the practice of
sexual harassment.
Emerging Poststructuralist Feminism is proposed as a potentially useful
theoretical framework for explaining and responding to sexual harassment in ACT high
schools.
It is hoped that this study will contribute to informing the decision making of
those responsible for developing and/or implementing sexual harassment policy in ACT
high schools, including teachers, school counsellors, principals, and administrators.
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Roy, Tapash. "Sexual behaviour, perception of AIDS risk and safer sex practices among rural-to-urban migrant men in Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508227.
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Pomery, Elizabeth Anne. "The influence of positive and negative affect on the processing of outcome expectancies related to risky sexual practices." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Ohnmar, Aung Pimpawan Boonmongkon. "Life styles, sexuality and cultural beliefs related to unsafe sexual practices among youth in Peri-Urban Yangon, Myanmar /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd375/4637982.pdf.
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Flood, Michael, and mflood@familyplanningact org au. "Lust, Trust and Latex: Why young heterosexual men don't use condoms." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2000. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20011205.151419.
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My research involves a critical analysis of the sexual cultures of young heterosexual Australian men. This research is driven by the need to understand and prevent the heterosexual sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS. I focus on young heterosexual mens understandings and experiences of condom use and non-use, given that condoms are a key means of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV.
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I conducted in-depth interviews with seventeen men, using these to explore sexual practices and the meanings and sociosexual relations through which these are organised. This close-focus qualitative approach is oriented to assessing the interplay between mens personal experience and the social relations of sexuality and gender. I draw on empirical feminist investigations of womens relation to HIV/AIDS, the critical scholarship on men and masculinities and masculine sexualities, and sociological scholarship on sexualities.
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My research finds that young heterosexual men emphasise five themes in accounting for their non-use of condoms. First, men stress the risk of pregnancy rather than the risks of HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and they respond to the former risk by relying on their partners use of the Pill. Second, men perceive that wearing condoms decreases their penile sensation and that condoms are difficult to use. Third, men find that the heat of the moment of sexual episodes, their spontaneous and passionate ambience, makes it hard to incorporate condoms and, indeed, condoms destroy this moment. Fourth, men privilege trust as fundamental to their sexual involvements, and they quickly define involvements as relationships and therefore as trusting and monogamous, such that they abandon condoms. Fifth, men believe that they are very unlikely to contract HIV because they see their social circles, institutions, the heterosexual community or heterosexual sex per se as safe and free of HIV/AIDS, so there is no need to wear condoms.
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I compare these findings with the argument in the AIDS literature that heterosexual mens use of condoms is limited by several understandings associated with masculine sexuality and masculinity. I argue that these understandings do not appear to be widespread as the literature claims, some work in contradictory ways and are compatible with safe sex, and other sets of meanings are more influential in heterosexual mens unsafe sex. Men do not represent wearing condoms as feminising or homosexualising, nor as masculine. I conclude by exploring how heterosexual men could be encouraged to use condoms through appeals to notions associated with masculinity and masculine sexuality.
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Velazquez, Efren A. "Examining Two Structural Equation Models to Determine the Effect of Parental Practices and Familial Cultural Values on Mexican Adolescents’ Sexual Health." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5422.
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Sexual behavior is a normative part of adolescence and it is important to understand how familial factors influence Latina/o adolescents’ sexual health. The current study examined two structural equation models (SEM) and the associations between familial cultural values (i.e., familismo and filial piety), maternal and paternal monitoring (i.e., disclosure and solicitation) and Latina/o adolescent’s sexual behavior (i.e., intentions to have sex, sexual behavior, sexual responsibility). A hypothesized SEM examined whether paternal/maternal monitoring mediated the relation between familial cultural values and adolescents’ sexual health, while an alternative SEM examined whether familial cultural values mediated the association between paternal/maternal monitoring and adolescents’ sexual health. Participants included 1,024 Mexican adolescents (54% female) between the ages 12-18. Results showed that the overall hypothesized SEM had excellent fit indices. Filial piety was associated with favorable sexual health outcomes and increased parental monitoring. Maternal disclosure was associated with lower intention to have sex and more sexual responsibility, while paternal solicitation was associated higher intention to have sex. Sex differences were found after conducting a chi-square difference tests and partially constraining the model. For Latino adolescents, paternal child disclosure and solicitation was associated with intentions to have sex. For Latina adolescents, familismo was associated with more maternal disclosure. Mediational analysis showed that for Latino adolescents, more reported filial piety was associated with more paternal solicitation and disclosure, which was then associated with lower and higher intentions to have sex, respectively. The alternative SEM had excellent fit indices, however, no sex differences were found. Mediational analyses were conducted with the unconstrained model while controlling for sex. Mediational pathways showed that maternal disclosure was positively associated with filial piety, which was associated with lower intention to have sex sexual intention and more sexual responsibility. Findings indicate that family cultural values and paternal monitoring may influence Latino adolescent’s intention to have sex. Additionally, filial piety should be considered as a protective factor for Latina/o adolescents’ sexual health. These findings can inform prevention programs targeting Latina/o families. Furthermore, a greater emphasis should be placed on the importance paternal monitoring and filial piety given their associations with Latino adolescents’ sexual health.
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Ripper, Mark. "A Curriculum Project for Itinerant Teacher’s Guidebook for Best Trauma Informed Practices." Otterbein University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1594306632987181.
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Teixeira, Catarina Alexandra da Silva. "Assimetrias de género na(s) engenharia(s) : dinâmicas e desafios." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16474.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos HumanosEsta dissertação centra-se na representação de homens e mulheres nas Engenharias em Portugal. Pretende-se com a investigação realizada reunir evidência empírica que possa favorecer uma maior consciencialização em torno da necessidade de promoção da igualdade de género e, por conseguinte, da integração de mulheres em áreas de formação e em profissões de elevada hegemonia masculina, como é caso da Engenharia. O estudo coligiu e analisou dados estatísticos oficiais a nível nacional, respeitantes a alunos/as inscritos/as e diplomados/as nas diversas Engenharias do Ensino Superior (ES). Procurou-se, por esta via, apreender a existência de eventuais mudanças na sociedade portuguesa no sentido de um maior equilíbrio entre homens e mulheres na Engenharia e nas suas distintas especialidades. Essa informação foi comparada com os dados disponibilizados pela Ordem dos Engenheiros (OE), tanto no que diz respeito ao perfil de associados/as da OE como à composição dos respetivos órgãos sociais. Complementarmente, foram realizadas entrevistas a membros representantes destes órgãos. Por fim, procedeu-se a uma sistematização de boas práticas tanto a nível nacional como internacional. Esta investigação ambiciona contribuir para a desconstrução de conceções estereotipadas em torno do género e da Engenharia, assim como para a integração de princípios de igualdade de género nas organizações, através da implementação de políticas e práticas de Gestão e de Gestão Recursos Humanos (GRH) inclusivas.
The current study is focused on the gender representation of the engineering sector in Portugal. The main research goal is the gathering of empirical evidence that may promote awareness about the need of gender equality and, therefore, of women's integration in areas of study and occupations traditionally male-dominated, such as the engineering sector. Data collection included the analysis of official statistical data, concerning registered and graduated students of the several engineering areas. This approach was intended to identify and understand the existence of possible-changes in the Portuguese society regarding a greater balance between men and women in engineering and its specialities. The gathered information was then compared to the data provided by the Engineers Professional Association - Ordem dos Engenheiros (OE) - the later regarding both the profile of the associates and the composition of the respective internal governing bodies. To further support the research findings, interviews were undertaken with OE members. Lastly, good practices are presented and discussed, at both national and international levels, focused on the creation of a systematic framework. The research aims to contribute to the deconstruction of stereotypical representations involving gender and engineering, as well as to the inclusion of gender equality principles in organizations through the implementation of inclusive policies and practices of Human Resources Management (HRM).
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Savery, Lynn. "International norms of sexual non-discrimination and changing state practices : a comparative study of Germany, Spain, Japan, and India." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5776.
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Brace, Elizabeth. "The sexual lives and identities of women with learning disabilities : exploring the significance of social norms and institutional practices." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/117.
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This thesis explores how a small group of women with learning disabilities give meaning to sexuality, and how institutional processes within family and service settings influence this. It focuses on empirical data gained primarily from interviews with sixteen women, supplemented and contextualised by data drawn from a focus group with six women, and observations of a course on sexuality for men and women with learning disabilities. The theoretical framework draws on the social model of disability, which suggests that disability is socially produced; Foucauldian concepts of regulation and normalisation; and symbolic interactionist notions of how sexuality is constructed through social interaction, alongside Foucault’s notion of sexuality being ‘produced’ via normative discourses. The research is therefore embedded within a framework that explores how women with learning disabilities are subject to a number of very particular regulatory sexual accounts and discourses, including those that relate specifically to ‘learning disability’, as well as gendered normative accounts that can act to compete with those in relation to learning disability, or work with, and underscore them. The study therefore explores where and how this group learnt about sexuality, teasing out some of the institutional accounts and discourses around sexuality, learning disability and gender that respondents reported coming into contact with; the kinds of institutional practices that influenced the agency of respondents, thus underlining or challenging the kinds of accounts and discourses of sexuality they reported encountering; and the various accounts and discourses of sexuality reflected in respondents’ own opinions in relation to sexuality, gender and learning disability. Findings suggest that respondents were subject to contradictory accounts, discourses and practices in relation to sexuality within institutional contexts, and that these both underscored norms related to the label of ‘learning disability’, as well as gendered and (hetero)sexual norms. Respondents themselves expressed a range of views in relation to sexuality. However, many accounts reflected the norms they reported encountering within family and service settings.
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Chimbandi, Prisca Ruvimbo. "The experienced reality of married Shona women : the impact of their husband's sexual practices on them and the relationship." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86213.
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Thesis (MPhill)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Given the impact that culture has on individuals‟ behaviour and the relation that behaviour especially sexual behaviour has with the spread of HIV/AIDS, the research took a look at the Shona culture and the impact that the married Shona men and their sexual practices had on their wives and the overall relationship/marriage. Interviews were conducted with married Shona women with the aim of getting recent information on the Shona culture and the practices of married Shona men so as to establish the levels of risk and the uncover vulnerabilities that are current. Information obtained from these interviews showed that although the Shona culture promotes certain behaviours amongst married people, some of these practices are being done away with but unfortunately not at a fast enough pace and because of this there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that risk of infection amongst married Shona couples is reduced and levels of vulnerability are tackled as well.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsprojek ondersoek die invloed van kultuur op die gedrag van „n individu en meer spesifiek, die invloed van individuele gedrag op die verspreiding van MIV/Vigs. Die studie ondersoek die Shona kultuur en die invloed wat die getroude Shona man het op die seksuele praktyke in die huwelik. Onderhoude is met getroude Shona vroue gevoer ten einde eerstehandse inligting te verky oor die invoed wat Shona kultuur op die Shona huwelik het en om verder te bepaal in watter mate die getroude Shona vrou onnodig aan die risiko van MIV blootgestel word. Inligting wat in hierdie ondersoek versamel is dui daarop dat die Shona kultuur nog steeds seker praktyke tussen getroude persone aanmoeding en dat dit nog steeds die risiko van MIV-oordraging verhoog. Daar is weliswaar met sekere van hierdie praktyke weggedoen, maar daar is nog steeds verskeie praktyke wat voortbestaan en wat MIV-oordraging verhoog. Die pas waarteen kultuur aanpas by die verhoogde waarskynlikheid van MIV-oordraging tussen getroude Shona mans en vrouens is nog steeds te stadig. Sekere voorstelle word in die studie gemaak ten einde te probeer om hierdie kultureel-gedrewe risiko vir MIV/Vigs-oordraging te beperk.
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Sullivan, Maggie. "Sex, Gender, Women and the Supreme Court: How the Supreme Court has Impacted Sexual Harassment Standards in Employment Practices." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1156.
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Rioux, Désiré. "Health and Safety Assemblages in the Male Strip Club: An Ethnographic Study of Male Strippers' Sexual Service Negotiation Practices." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41969.
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Background. Despite the prevalence of sex work and strip clubs across Canadian urban geographies, few studies explore the occupational health and safety outcomes related to indoor male sex work, let alone male stripping whereby men dance for men. Moreover, the sexual service negotiation process in the sex work industry remains to be explored. In knowing that sexual practices with high HIV/STI rates occur in strip clubs (e.g., condomless oral, vaginal, and anal sex), as well as widespread psychoactive substance use among strippers, the purpose of this study was to explore the cultural features of male strippers’ work that impact their health and safety outcomes. Methodology. For this study, we recruited 14 male strippers working with male clients in a Canadian city. Critical ethnography was our espoused methodology. Through field observations, informal conversations, questionnaires, and semi-structured qualitative interviews, we explored the process of sexual transactions between strippers and clients. We used a postmodern angle to interpret our findings through the works of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault. Findings. The male strip club is a social matrix produced by the intersection of motivational forces: the motivation to gain money, pleasure, or intimacy, and the motivation to abide by socio-cultural and legal norms. It is upon a matrix of financial necessity and socio-cultural and legal constraints that sex work transactions unfold in the club. Moreover, the club’s health and safety conditions and strippers’ transaction outcomes result from intersecting motivations. Finally, sexual service negotiation is a process of configuring motivational forces between social agents. The motivation for financial gain revealed itself to be the strongest and most consistent force; the focus on capital gain generated asymmetrical connections between strippers, clients, and business entrepreneurs, resulting in specific health and safety outcomes. Conclusion. The Canadian legal and political context surrounding male sex work negatively impacts male strippers’ occupational health and safety conditions by disabling safe connections with clients. Further, the emphasis on money-making activities encourages strippers to value financial gain over their physical and mental integrity. In short, the male strip club work environment is configured in a manner whereby capital gain is prioritized and strippers’ health and safety is undermined.
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Baroody, Ahmed. "Watching anime, doing gender : hegemonic masculinity, sexual modesty, and the gendered consumption practices and preferences of Kuwaiti anime fans." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13153219/?lang=0, 2021. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13153219/?lang=0.
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This dissertation traces the circulation and consumption of Japanese anime, or Anime, in Kuwait to examine the changing consciousness of normativity regarding gender and sexuality for audiences and fans. Anime has been distributed and accessible since the 1970s in Kuwait. Nonetheless, with the advent of "New Anime" after the 2000s, the audience has widely accepted characters and protagonists that deviate from the existing representational practices portraying active men and passive women. Drawing from gender and sexualities studies, media and anime studies, Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony as well as Raewyn Connell's theory on masculinities, this study critically investigates "hegemonic masculinities" in Kuwaiti society to argue the ways in which the reception and practices of Anime help to erode them.博士(アメリカ研究)
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Robbins, Russel Douglas. "A descriptive study of sexual health attitudes and practices among adolescent and young adult male county health department clients." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4287.
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The purpose of this study is to look at selected sexual attitudes, beliefs, and sexual health practices among adolescent and young adult males. Specifically, the study examines adolescent and young adult males' sexual development and experiences, contraceptive use, sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention practices, and, to a limited extent, public health clinic utilization.