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标题：‘Men value their dignity’: securing respect and identity construction in urban informal settlements in South Africa
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作者：Andrew Gibbs ; Yandisa Sikweyiya ; Rachel Jewkes 等
期刊名称：Global Health Action
印刷版ISSN：1654-9716
电子版ISSN：1654-9880
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：0
DOI：10.3402/gha.v7.23676
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：Background: Urban informal settlements remain sites of high HIV incidence and prevalence, as well as violence. Increasing attention is paid on how configurations of young men’s masculinities shape these practices through exploring how men build respect and identity. In this paper, we explore how young Black South Africans in two urban informal settlements construct respect and a masculine identity.Methods: Data are drawn from three focus groups and 19 in-depth interviews.Results: We suggest that while young men aspire to a ‘traditional’ masculinity, prioritising economic power and control over the household, we suggest that a youth masculinity emerges which, in lieu of alternative ways to display power, prioritises violence and control over men’s sexual partners, men seeking multiple sexual partners and men’s violence to other men. This functions as a way of demonstrating masculinity and their position within a public gender order.Discussion: We suggest there are three implications of the findings for working with men on violence and HIV-risk reduction. First, there exist a number of contradictions in men’s discourses about masculinity that may provide spaces and opportunities for change. Second, it is important to work on multiple issues at once given the way violence, alcohol use, and sexual risk are interlinked in youth masculinity. Finally, engaging with men’s exclusion from the capitalist system may provide an important way to reduce violence.Keywords: masculinity; HIV; violence; gender; multiple sexual partners; livelihoods; IPV; unemployment(Published: 8 April 2014)Citation: Glob Health Action 2014, 7: 23676 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23676Cluster: This paper is part of the Cluster Gender and health. More papers from this cluster can be found here and here.
关键词：Public Health; Gender Studies;masculinity; HIV; violence; gender; multiple sexual partners; livelihoods; IPV; unemployment