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How to use a condom

Narratives, sexualities and moralities in safer sex health promotional literature

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15097992
AutoresMichele L Crossley (autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas363-370
Data de publicação2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691050152484777
OpenAlexW2050852116
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas7

This paper uses two specific 'moments' in the history of the UK HIV/AIDS health promotion response to illustrate the way in which social narratives and moralities underpin different safer sex messages. Drawing on narrative psychological theory (see Crossley 2000a, Maclntyre 1981, Taylor 1989), it works from the premise that the language and cultural images used in health promotion campaigns are inscribed within predominant narratives and stories. The stories and the meanings thereby set in motion are intrinsic to our making sense of ourselves and others around us. This is because stories constitute manifestations of specific versions of what is 'valuable', 'worthwhile', 'justifiable' and 'moral' for people in any given culture, thereby having the capacity to confer meaning and substance on our lives (Taylor 1989). The case studies examined here are used to illustrate the way in which different health promotional materials offer very different accounts of sexuality that are inextricably related to culturally inscribed visions of 'self' and ways of relating to others. An important part of deconstructing the images and messages offered by HIV/AIDS health promotion campaigns, involves questioning and assessing the suitability of such narratives for contemporary challenges facing the audience for which they are intended. The safer sex promotional materials produced by two very different UK based health related agencies, the Health Education Authority (HEA) and the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be focused on. Chronicles of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic have dubbed these agencies as advocating 'heterosexual' and 'gay' approaches, respectively, to health promotion (e.g. Garfield 1994)

Art · Computer security · Condom · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human sexuality · Literature · Narrative · Population · Reproductive health · SAFER · Safer sex · Sexual behavior · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Computer Science · Demography · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Virology

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Obras citantes distintas1
Citações por ano0,04
Intervalo de citações2002 - 2002 (1)
Velocidade de citaçãohistorical
Altamente citadoNão
Tipos de citaçãoNeutras: 1
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