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1	Sexual identity, risk perceptions and AIDS prevention scripts among young people in Mozambique Karlyn, Andrew Scott January 2005 (has links) This thesis contributes to the understanding of young people's sexual behaviour, the nonnative context in which it takes place, and how implicit assumptions contained in interventions inadvertently contribute to young people's sexual risk-taking. Fieldwork was carried out in early 2000 in Maputo, Mozambique and consisted of 71 individual and 21 group interviews with men and women aged 16-24 years old. Script theory was used as an organising framework to show how sexual culture and the social construction of risk influence the behaviour change process. Nearly all young people interviewed were sexually active and most reported involvement in a relationship with a long-standing partner. Casual sex was common; however condom use was inconsistent with all partners. The immediate concern for young people is pregnancy, not HIV/AIDS. Two locally defined sexual identities were found. First, the survivor lifestyle demonstrates how gender and power relations define and control sexual identity and determine sexual choices among young people. Second, the saca cena (one-night stand) illustrates how and why some young people come to terms with risk, redefine their sexuality, and adopt innovative sexual behaviour including condom use. Without a clear understanding of how behaviour change happens and how meaning becomes vested in practice, interventions will fail to promote healthy sexual lifestyles and prevent HIV/ AIDS and STls among young people. The gap between knowledge and practice is a case in point. Young people bridge this gap, but their response is mediated by the social and sexual identities they assume, the perceived consequences of mitigating actions, and the resources at their disposal. For the purpose of structuring effective interventions, it is important to assess what these perceived risks are, how they become integrated into sexual identities, and what resources can be deployed to modify them. 362.1969792009679
2	A sociolinguistic investigation of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse Van de Wouwer, Pascale Martine 30 November 2003 (has links) This research investigates how the speech community living in Maputo city uses language in relation to HIV/AIDS and studies related stigmas which impede women's access to HIV/AIDS counselling services. My hypothesis is that frequent use of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse aims at stigmatising women as AIDS propagators, while minimizing male sexual transgressions in the AIDS crisis. Interpretation of primary data collected via focus group discussions and interviews is done with five different approaches that study respectively: social meanings and representations of AIDS embedded in context, the stigmatising process correlating gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, stereotypical speech attitudes and speech mechanism as well as the functions and effects of stereotyping. My conclusion is that deeply rooted gender barriers are to be removed in order to combat the social plague of AIDS and that ethnography of communication offers interesting models for development projects that can initiate behavioural changes through speech. / Linguistics / M.A. (Sociolinguistics) HIV/AIDS Gender Stigmas Access to counselling services Speech community Focus Group Discussion Context-embedded meaning Discourse analysis Stereotyping Speech attitudes Functional analysis Ethnography of communication Sociolinguistics Stereotypes 362.1969792009679 Focus groups -- Mozambique Discourse analysis -- Mozambique Communication and culture -- Mozambique Sociolinguistics -- Mozambique Language and culture -- Mozambique Prejudices -- Mozambique Communication -- Mozambique Women -- Diseases -- Mozambique Women -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique Men -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique
3	A sociolinguistic investigation of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse Van de Wouwer, Pascale Martine 30 November 2003 (has links) This research investigates how the speech community living in Maputo city uses language in relation to HIV/AIDS and studies related stigmas which impede women's access to HIV/AIDS counselling services. My hypothesis is that frequent use of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse aims at stigmatising women as AIDS propagators, while minimizing male sexual transgressions in the AIDS crisis. Interpretation of primary data collected via focus group discussions and interviews is done with five different approaches that study respectively: social meanings and representations of AIDS embedded in context, the stigmatising process correlating gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, stereotypical speech attitudes and speech mechanism as well as the functions and effects of stereotyping. My conclusion is that deeply rooted gender barriers are to be removed in order to combat the social plague of AIDS and that ethnography of communication offers interesting models for development projects that can initiate behavioural changes through speech. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Sociolinguistics) HIV/AIDS Gender Stigmas Access to counselling services Speech community Focus Group Discussion Context-embedded meaning Discourse analysis Stereotyping Speech attitudes Functional analysis Ethnography of communication Sociolinguistics Stereotypes 362.1969792009679 Focus groups -- Mozambique Discourse analysis -- Mozambique Communication and culture -- Mozambique Sociolinguistics -- Mozambique Language and culture -- Mozambique Prejudices -- Mozambique Communication -- Mozambique Women -- Diseases -- Mozambique Women -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique Men -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique

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