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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Male sexuality"”.
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Male sexuality and masculinity: Implications for STIs/HIV and sexual health interventions in Bangladesh
My thesis concerns male sexuality as revealed by men living in contemporary urban and rural Bangladesh. I pursue what men think it means to be a man. dimensions of manliness and manhood, and male influences in the construction of male/female relationships. Significant meanings men attribute to …
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Female sexuality and body image during pregnancy
… and developmental perspectives, evaluated female sexuality and body image during pregnancy and the postnatal period. A cross-sectional and longitudinal research design was used. Several female (n = 208) and male ( n = 84) subsamples were evaluated. Assessment included a Biographical …
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Sexuality research: Untested gender assumptions amid paradigm shifts
Content analysis of 803 sexuality research abstracts selected from Sociological Abstracts published from January 1974 to August 1992 answers three questions: (1) Are there trends in sexuality research? (2) Is there a paradigm shift? and (3) Is gender differentiation present? Research between 1973 …
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Sexually explicit representations and their significance in late modern Western culture: A critical appraisal.
… in advertising, the representation of male sexuality in men's magazines and of female sexuality in popular media and subcultural forms. Specific instances are taken to investigate the applicability of widely used concepts such as 'transgression', 'objectification' and 'pornography' …
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Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher’s Britain
… music in catalysing a rise in mainstream gay male visibility during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership (1979-1990). I examine how popular music afforded a radical space within this seismic cultural and socio-political context that permitted artists to express, challenge, and remodel expectations …
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New Conflict, Old Conundrum: Venereal Disease Control and Education in World War Two Canada
… to remind Canadians that the moral elements of sexuality could not be brushed aside. Influenced by the experiences of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, anti-venereal disease campaigners were concerned by the impact of venereal disease rates on productivity and efficiency in a …
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Development of global prohibition regimes: pillage and rape in war.
… that framed rape as an inevitable byproduct of male sexuality. Plus, the exclusion of women from politics like the international law-making process meant that actors to promote change could not be effective. Hence, a normative context and a normative shock to make the prohibition of rape in war …
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Reappraising men's sexual behaviors and gendered attitudes from the sexual-history narratives of South African men and women in a time of HIV/AIDS.
… Africa has generated much interest in men's sexuality, much research to date has presented men as a homogenous group, or treats male sexuality as a set of isolated, individually driven behaviours. As a result, the current body of knowledge provides only a partial basis for meeting men's …
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Early adolescent girls in transition in a peri-urban northern Thai community: perceptions of gender role and sexuality
… girls' perceptions of their gender roles and sexuality which places them at risk for contracting STDs and AIDS through sexual transmission. Ethnographic approaches were used to develop a fuller understanding of the specific social and cultural contexts that structure the meanings of gender and …
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Discourse analysis of gender-based violence in contemporary Kiswahili fiction: A case study of selected novels of the past three decades (1975 - 2004) and young Tanzanians’ interpretations
… in Kiswahili novels showed that the dominant male power of the perpetrators was the main reason offered for the violence against women depicted in the novels. However, cultural practices, poverty, alcoholism, male sexuality and uncontrollable jealousy were also foregrounded as factors …
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Sexual-Enhancement Drug Use in College-Age Men
… SEDs to those who had not used them. Eighty-two male college students completed a questionnaire that included open-ended questions about their use of SEDs and items assessing their sexual history and motives for having sex. The majority of the 16 men who reported having used SEDs used Viagra, …