Research Catalog

Title

Young people's lives and sexual relationships in rural Africa : findings from a large qualitative study in Tanzania / Mary Louisa Plummer and Daniel Wight.

Author

Plummer, Mary Louisa

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wight, Daniel

Description

xix, 444 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of ruralsub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily large and representative qualitative study that was affiliated with an adolescent sexual health intervention trial and included three person-years of participant observation conducted by young East Af.

Subject

• Rural Health
• Intergenerational Relations
• HIV Infections
• Adolescent
• Sexual Behavior
• Intergenerational relations > Tanzania
• Teenagers > Sexual behavior > Tanzania
• Rural youth > Sexual behavior > Tanzania
• Sex customs > Tanzania
• HIV infections > Tanzania
• Adolescent > Tanzania > Case Reports
• Tanzania

Genre/Form

Case Reports

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Research Methods -- 3. Village Life -- 4. Children's Relationships with Parents, Peers, and Teachers -- 5. Contradictory Sexual Norms and Expectations -- Case Study Series 1 "We'll Have Sex Again When the Opportunity Arises": Typical Young People's Lives and Premarital Sexual Relationships -- 6. Unmarried Young People's Sexual Relationships -- 7. Sexual Negotiation, Exchange, and Coercion -- 8. Sexual Practices -- Case Study Series 2 "He Told Me, `Just Come and Live at My House"': Typical Young People's Experience of Marriage and Divorce -- 9. Married Young People's Sexual Relationships -- 10. Contraception, Abortion, and Fertility -- 11. HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Case Study Series 3 "The Fever Went Away but Always Returned": HIV-Positive Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships -- 12. Barriers and Facilitators of Sexual Risk Reduction.

ISBN

• 9780739135785 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739135783 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739135808 (ebook)
• 0739135805 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011013036

OCLC

• 707966816
• SCSB-12443384

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library