The sexual construction of Latino youth: implications for the spread of HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Contents * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. General Overview * Study Rationale and Objectives * Structure of the Study * Chapter 2. Background * Sex Education in Costa Rica * Sexuality and Young People * Risk of HIV Infection Through Sexual Contact * Communities Studied * Chapter 3. Methodology * Organization of the Study * Specific Objectives * Target Population and Study Sample * Research Methods * Preparation of an Interview Guide * Selection and Training of Interviewers * Conduct of In-Depth Interviews * Focus Groups * Interviews with Community Leaders * Transcription and Data Analysis * Methodological Challenges * Chapter 4. Conceptual Frame for the Analysis of Sexual Culture * Introduction to Social Constructionism * Basic Principles * Sexual Discourses * Sexual Practice and Identity * Gender, Identity, and Sexual Roles * Discourses and Prevention * Power and Knowledge Articulated in Discourses * How Do Discourses on Sex Emerge? * Discourse Internalization * How are Discourses Imposed? * Contradictions Inherent within Sexual Discourses * Resistance to Dominant Discourses * Compartmentalization of Discourses * Chapter 5. Hegemonic Sexual Discourses * Principles of Religious Discourses * Principles of Gender Discourses * Principles of Scientific Discourses * Chapter 6. Assimilation of Religious Discourses * The Costa Rican Context * Female Religious Discourses * Male Religious Discourses * Community Religious Discourses * Fundamentalist Religious Discourses * Chapter 7. Assimilation of Gender Discourses * How Are Sex Roles Internalized? * Public Awareness of Gender and the Impulse for Change * Male Gender Discourses * Female Gender Discourse * Gender Discourses in the Communities * Chapter 8. Assimilation of Scientific Discourses * Scientific Discourses and young People * Chapter 9. Learning and Imposition of Discourses * Transmission of Messages * Learning and Repetition * Blind Acceptance, Essentialist Thinking, and Manichaeism * Proselytism * Social Instruments of Control: Punishment * Individual Instruments of Control: The Internal Watchdog * Chapter 10. Contradictions and Compartmentalization * Origins of Contradictions * Contradictions and Young People * Discursive Contradictions and Tolerance of Homosexuality * Discourses and Compartmentalization * Chapter 11. Formal Resistance to Discourses * Erotic Discourses * Romantic Discourses * Feminist Discourses * Chapter 12. Informal Resistance to Discourses * Resistance by Young Women in Villa del Mar * Resistance by Young Men in Villa del Mar * Resistance by Young Men in Villa del Sol * Resistance by Young Women in Villa del Sol * Chapter 13. Sexual Culture and Barriers to AIDS Prevention * Censorship * Internal Watchdog * Magic-Religious Thought * Compartmentalization * Sexual Violence * Economic Violence * Escapism * Bibliography * Index * Reference Notes Included