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Engaging men who have sex with men in operations research in Kenya |
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Washington Onyango-Ouma, Harriet Birungi, Scott Geibel. |
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Culture, Health and Sexuality, 11 (2009) 8 (nov), p. 827-839.
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Research on men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa is severely constrained. This paper examines the process of engaging MSM in research in a context where same-sex relationships are criminalised and socially stigmatised. Despite difficulties in researching MSM in Kenya, a convenient sample of 500 men was enrolled into a study aimed at understanding HIV/STI risks and prevention needs. Lessons drawn from this study highlight innovative methodological approaches and processes to working with and researching MSM in homophobic communities. Researchers willing to venture into MSM research in such contexts should be prepared to deal with among others, issues such as, seeking ethical approval for a study whose subjects are considered to engage in illegal activities, assuring study participants of their privacy and confidentiality and questioning of their own integrity. This study shows that despite difficulties, research of this kind can be carried out in Kenya. |
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'I am like a woman' : constructions of sexuality among gay men in a low-income South African community |
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Francois Rabie, Elmien Lesch. |
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Culture, Health and Sexuality, 11 (2009) 7 (oct), p. 717-729.
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South African research on same-sex sexuality is sparse. Black men living in rural areas, and particularly coloured men, have often been neglected in same-sex sexuality research. This paper describes the findings from a study that explored the sexuality constructions of a group of young, coloured, self-identified gay men who live in a semi-rural, low-income, South African community. Social constructionist grounded theory was used to analyse interviews conducted with 12 men between the ages of 20 and 31. It was found that these men construct their sexuality as being 'like a woman'. In our exploration of this core category, we show how men use notions of femininity to construct their sexuality. We conclude by considering how this group of gay men's performance of femininity could be viewed as reproducing mainstream ideas of gender within their community, while at the same time functioning as acts of subversion. |
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La fabrique des identités sexuelles |
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Christophe Broqua et Fred Eboko (éd.). |
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Autrepart, (2009) 49 (jan), p. 3-240.
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2724631641 |
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http://www.cairn.info/revue-autrepart-2009-1.htm |
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Au cours des dernières décennies, maints travaux sur le genre et la sexualité ont rendu compte de transformations profondes dans les pays occidentaux. Des évolutions moins connues mais tout aussi importantes se sont produites également dans les pays du Sud. En témoignent les articles réunis dans ce numéro qui invite en même temps à d'autres décloisonnements, entre genre et sexualité, féminité et masculinité, hétérosexualité et homosexualité. Dans bien des pays, la production des identités sexuelles dépend, en même temps que de processus liés à la mondialisation, des spécificités du contexte local : situation postcoloniale, crise économique, échanges transnationaux relevant des migrations ou du tourisme, pratiques religieuses, politiques des ONG, etc. Il apparaît en particulier, dans divers pays d'Afrique, que l'accélération de la monétarisation des rapports sociaux conditionne les formes sociales de la sexualité, les rapports de genre et, donc, la fabrication des identités sexuelles. |
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New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa |
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Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 43 (2009) 1 , p. .
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Contents - New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa: Introduction / Marc Epprecht. - Les sexualités africaines dans leurs nouvelles perspectives: Introduction / Charles Gueboguo. - The Widow, the Will, and Widow-inheritance in Kampala: Revisiting Victimisation Arguments / Stella Nyanzi, Margaret Emodu-Walakira, and Wilberforce Serwaniko. - Faith in God, But Not in Condoms: Churches and Competing Visions of HIV Prevention in Namibia / Nicole Rigillo. - Sur les rétributions des pratiques homosexuelles à Bamako / Christophe Broqua. - Deaf, Gay, HIV Positive, and Proud: Narrating an Alternative Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Karin Willemse and Ruth Morgan with John Meletse. - 'Mombasa Morans': Embodiment, Sexual Morality, and Samburu Men in Kenya / George Paul Meiu. - Penser les 'droits' des homosexuels/les en Afrique: du sens et de la puissance de laction associative militante au Cameroun / Charles Gueboguo. - African Feminists on Sexualities / Signe Arnfred. - Sexualities, Pleasure, and Politics in Southern Africa / Bodil Folke Frederiksen. - Southern African Homosexualities and Denials / Stephen O. Murray. - Contre lhomophobie en Afrique / Patrick Awondo. - African Perspectives on Female Circumcision / Amy Kaler. - Same-Sex Sexuality Issues in Some African Popular Media / Unoma Azuah. |
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