as adult women, and half of all new HIV infections occur in young people between 15 and 24 years of age (Pathfinder … International, 2011). Young people, particularly adolescent girls and young women, continue to face challenges in meeting their SRH …

change. They demonstrate the need to engage with women, both as victims of patriarchy and active supporters of the gender … potential for interventions with women that acknowledge existing gender inequalities, validate women’s agency, reduce violence …In South Africa, both HIV and gender-based violence are highly prevalent. Gender inequalities give men considerable …

used meta-ethnographic methods to understand their origins, their meanings for the women who use them, and how they have … women to negotiate challenges that they face. Recent evidence suggests that some practices may increase a woman … as microbicides, might be determined by whether they can and will be used by women in the course of their daily life. …

are active participants in the \'racer\' culture through their positioning in the \'driver\'s seat\'. Gender is understood … as \'performative\' and Connell\'s notions of \'hegemonic masculinity\' and \'emphasized femininity\' frame the analysis …. For the \'girl racers\', \'doing gender\' involved negotiating a complex set of norms while reconciling the competing …

underpinning the gender-designation of gymnastics, and b) the relative invisibility of a core audience for the sport: young girls …

empowerment and participation of women. Current changes in gender relations and gender identities in the western world do not …In theory, and even more in the practice of sustainability communications, the gender dimension of sustainability has … been neglected relative to other fields of the science. The aim of this paper is to show the relevance of gender as an …

Public policy documents on gender and health mostly rely on categorical understandings of gender that are now … inadequate. Poststructuralist thought is an advance, but relational theories of gender, treating gender as a multidimensional … arenas, especially to understand gender on a world scale. A relational approach to this question is proposed, seeing gendered …

This paper explores the experiences of women in small cultural businesses and is based upon interviews with women … women's roles in cultural production and consumption. We argue that it is necessary that experiences of production and … consumption be understood as inter-related processes. Each part of this process is imbued with particular gender characteristics …