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- Title
WOMEN'S STD PREVENTION AND DETECTION PRACTICES: THE SPECIFICITY OF SOCIAL LOCATION.
- Authors
Austin, Erika Laine
- Abstract
Limited research has focused on women's prevention and detection of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), due to the emphasis on the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Existing public health research on women's sexual health practices treats race/ethnicity and social class as separate explanatory factors, with a focus on the practices of minority and impoverished women. This work uses an intersection approach to problematize the traditional use of race/ethnicity and social class in public health research by creating multiplicative interaction terms to represent the unique social locations created by the intersection of the systems of patriarchy, racism, and capitalist exploitation. Logistic regression models reveal several significant interaction terms, suggesting that race/ethnicity and social class interact in meaningful ways to predict women's sexual health practices.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases; WOMEN'S health; SOCIAL classes; ETHNIC groups; MULTICULTURALISM; PUBLIC health; SEXUAL health; UNWANTED pregnancy
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2005, Vol 12, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article