The Male in the Head

This book is the fruit of ten years' research, and presents combined findings from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP) and the smallerscale Men, Risk and AIDS Project (MRAP). These projects were based on interviews with young people between the ages of 16 and 21, conducted in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the authors explain in their opening chapter, the initial impetus for the research was a concern with HIV and safer sex, particularly for young heterosexual women. The authors soon realized, however, that the young women's ability or inability to negotiate safer sex was inextricable from the power relations inherent in heterosexuality itself, and their research on safer sex inevitably became a much broader and deeper project on the social construction of heterosexuality

Condom · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Negotiation · SAFER · Safer sex · Social science · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Great britain · Masculinity · Safe sex in aids prevention · Sex role · Sexual behavior · Young adults · Young men · Youth · Virology