AIDS, addiction and condom use: Sources of sexual risk for heterosexual women

This paper presents an analysis of interviews with two women, in intravenous drug use and a sex partner of an intravenous drug user. Their discourse reveals how women may assume different relations to traditional ideals of womanhood and heterosexual intimacy as defined by mainstream culture, and how...

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Published in:The Journal of sex research 1990-08, Vol.27 (3), p.427-444
Main Author: Kane, Stephanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Addiction
AIDS
Birth Control
Children
Cocaine
condom use
Condoms
Drug abuse
Drug Addiction
Gender roles
Heroin
heterosexual transmission of HIV
HIV
Illicit drugs
Intravenous drug abuse
intravenous drug use
Risk
Sex Roles
Sexual behavior
Social life & customs
Social research
Women
women and AIDS
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Summary:This paper presents an analysis of interviews with two women, in intravenous drug use and a sex partner of an intravenous drug user. Their discourse reveals how women may assume different relations to traditional ideals of womanhood and heterosexual intimacy as defined by mainstream culture, and how the circumstances underlying their everyday personal experience are often in conflict with ideal gender roles. Analysis demonstrates that decisions regarding the use of condoms are constrained by this tension between the circumstances of addiction and mainstream ideals. Interview segments focus on sources of ambivalence toward condoms and the way in which economics, emotions, and addictions may affect women's willingness and ability to negotiate sexual risk reduction with steady male partners.
ISSN:0022-4499
1559-8519
DOI:10.1080/00224499009551570