Women's Agency in Intimate Partnerships (Paperback)

The South African HIV/AIDS pandemic exposes the hegemonic intersection of gender, power and sexuality.This qualitative study aims to explore South African rural black women's agency in intimate partnerships at a time of transition and amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It explores whether there is some empirical evidence for what is a common perception, namely the lack of agency that rural black women have in negotiating their sexual relationships and the impact that this has on the risk of HIV/AIDS. One of the assumptions made was that age is a critical variable because of the changing dynamics of time figurations in gender practice. The author suggests that in non-violent partnerships the decisive variable for a woman's capacity for agency both in terms of decision-making on having sex as well as their potential for HIV self-protection strategies is marital status and not age.

General

Imprint:	Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	September 2009
Authors:	Britta Thege
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-3-8381-1050-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	3-8381-1050-1
Barcode:	9783838110509

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