Some Considerations on Sexuality and Gender in the Context of Aids

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ID3972967
AuthorsG W Dowsett (0000-0002-0841-3964, Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume11
Issue22
Pages21-29
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0968-8080(03)02290-0
PMID14708394
OpenAlexW2034650245
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited14

Gender has become a major conceptual tool for understanding the evolving HIV pandemic globally. As such, it has provided a powerful way to see the structure of relations between men and women as central to various epidemics, and added weight to our understanding of HIV infection as not simply an individual experience of disease. Yet, as a concept, gender has its blind spots. This paper argues that there are four issues central to our understanding of how the HIV pandemic moves and develops that are not necessarily best understood through an analysis that uses gender alone, namely: women's vulnerability, men's culpability, young people's sexual interests and marginalized sexual cultures. The paper proposes using sexuality as a framework for analysing these issues and seeks to utilise developments in critical sexuality research to add to gender as a way to increase the capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis

Computer security · Criminology · Culpability · Disease · Human sexuality · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Computer Science · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Virology

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