The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth

Implications for the Spread of HIV/AIDS

Johnny Madrigal (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2000
Haworth Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0884-8 (ISBN)

Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage

Artikel merken

Learn about Latino sexuality and how to help curb the spread of AIDS among young Latinos!The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth: Implications for the Spread of HIV/AIDS is a comprehensive study of what young Latinos learn about sexuality and a detailed description of the latin sexual culture and its direct relation to HIV infection. This unique book discusses how the social construction of gender in Latin America contributes to sexual violence in countries such as Costa Rica, where violence is used as a means of controlling and asserting ownership over women's bodies by their fathers, brothers, and boyfriends. You will discover how this violence and control often leads women to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, a seemingly hopeless condition that makes them incapable of responding to a new crisis. The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth calls for the development of individual prevention programs that take into account the differences in sexual culture and the role of gender and class in producing such differences. The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth contains shocking information on several Latin American countries such as Honduras, which has more than fifty percent of the Central American AIDS cases. Twenty percent of the people there living with AIDS are fifteen to twenty-four years old. Through your knowledge of the situation, you can work to prevent tragedy among young people in Latin American who are among the least informed group on HIV prevention and the most likely to engage in practices that place them at high risk of contracting HIV. Through The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth, you will discover unique tips and suggestions for connecting with young people and developing a program to lower infection rates, such as:

discovering how the Roman Catholic churches’position that a condom campaign to prevent HIV infection is immoral prevents young people from using condoms
realizing that censorship by the media and public at large regarding premarital sex and AIDS- related topics is one of the key barriers to effective AIDS prevention strategies
understanding that because sex education remains unavailable to the young people of Latin America, these countries will continue to experience unwanted pregnancies and HIV infection
recognizing that in Latin America, fear, guilt, disgust, and shame are all used in an attempt to control a young persons’body and assure that all expressions of sexuality are directly related to procreation
finding that young people in Latin America live at home until they are married, rely on their parents for gainful employment and are expected to live their lives for their families, not for themselvesThe Sexual Construction of Latino Youth discusses why traditional approaches to sex education in Latin America are ineffective and demonstrates what culturally-minded steps need to be taken to teach these youths how to protect themselves. The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth will help you make a difference and enable you to turn some of these tragic stories into successful and healthy lives.

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. General Overview
Study Rationale and Objectives
Structure of the Study
Chapter 2. Background
Sex Education in Costa Rica
Sexuality and Young People
Risk of HIV Infection Through Sexual Contact
Communities Studied
Chapter 3. Methodology
Organization of the Study
Specific Objectives
Target Population and Study Sample
Research Methods
Preparation of an Interview Guide
Selection and Training of Interviewers
Conduct of In-Depth Interviews
Focus Groups
Interviews with Community Leaders
Transcription and Data Analysis
Methodological Challenges
Chapter 4. Conceptual Frame for the Analysis of Sexual Culture
Introduction to Social Constructionism
Basic Principles
Sexual Discourses
Sexual Practice and Identity
Gender, Identity, and Sexual Roles
Discourses and Prevention
Power and Knowledge Articulated in Discourses
How Do Discourses on Sex Emerge?
Discourse Internalization
How are Discourses Imposed?
Contradictions Inherent within Sexual Discourses
Resistance to Dominant Discourses
Compartmentalization of Discourses
Chapter 5. Hegemonic Sexual Discourses
Principles of Religious Discourses
Principles of Gender Discourses
Principles of Scientific Discourses
Chapter 6. Assimilation of Religious Discourses
The Costa Rican Context
Female Religious Discourses
Male Religious Discourses
Community Religious Discourses
Fundamentalist Religious Discourses
Chapter 7. Assimilation of Gender Discourses
How Are Sex Roles Internalized?
Public Awareness of Gender and the Impulse for Change
Male Gender Discourses
Female Gender Discourse
Gender Discourses in the Communities
Chapter 8. Assimilation of Scientific Discourses
Scientific Discourses and young People
Chapter 9. Learning and Imposition of Discourses
Transmission of Messages
Learning and Repetition
Blind Acceptance, Essentialist Thinking, and Manichaeism
Proselytism
Social Instruments of Control: Punishment
Individual Instruments of Control: The Internal Watchdog
Chapter 10. Contradictions and Compartmentalization
Origins of Contradictions
Contradictions and Young People
Discursive Contradictions and Tolerance of Homosexuality
Discourses and Compartmentalization
Chapter 11. Formal Resistance to Discourses
Erotic Discourses
Romantic Discourses
Feminist Discourses
Chapter 12. Informal Resistance to Discourses
Resistance by Young Women in Villa del Mar
Resistance by Young Men in Villa del Mar
Resistance by Young Men in Villa del Sol
Resistance by Young Women in Villa del Sol
Chapter 13. Sexual Culture and Barriers to AIDS Prevention
Censorship
Internal Watchdog
Magic-Religious Thought
Compartmentalization
Sexual Violence
Economic Violence
Escapism
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.5.2000
Verlagsort	Binghamton
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-0884-X / 078900884X
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-0884-8 / 9780789008848
Zustand	Neuware