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Corrêa, Sônia; Maguire, Daniel C.; Figueroa-Perea, Juan-Guillermo

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“…El resultado es "un cuadro donde el poder está disperso de forma desigual a lo largo de la red social y cultural, configurando campos de fuerza inestables". 17 El poder está siempre presente, en todas partes y en estado fluido, lo que permite observar que los subordinados siempre ejercen algún tipo de poder, muchas veces en forsalud pública de méxico / vol.44, no.6, noviembre-diciembre de 2002 Herrera C, Campero L ma de resistencia. Siguiendo los planteamientos de Foucault, los "micromecanismos" del poder producen críticas que -en caso de contar con organización política-podrían convertirse en estrategias para resistir a los propios mecanismos del poder.…”

Section: Género Y Sexualidad Dimensiones De Riesgounclassified

“…La visibilidad de los grupos dominados por el sistema de sexo género, en general ha sido posible en diferentes momentos históricos gracias al análisis crítico del discurso hegemónico (por ejemplo feministas, gays y lesbianas) y a la acción política. 17 Existen diferentes obstáculos para la visibilidad de las mujeres ante el VIH/SIDA, tanto en México como en la mayor parte de los países. A pesar de que un número importante de los nuevos casos de VIH/ SIDA se ha presentado entre mujeres monógamas, sigue existiendo el estereotipo de que el SIDA es una enfermedad de hombres gays y de que, si acaso existe salud pública de méxico / vol.44, no.6, noviembre-diciembre de 2002 Herrera C, Campero L algún riesgo para las mujeres, éste es tan sólo para las trabajadoras sexuales y usuarias de drogas intravenosas.…”

Section: Empoderamiento Social Vs Invisibilidad De Las Mujeresunclassified

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La vulnerabilidad e invisibilidad de las mujeres ante el VIH/SIDA: constantes y cambios en el tema

Herrera¹,

Campero²

2002

Salud pública Méx

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This paper presents some thoughts on the problems endured by women facing HIV/AIDS. World and nationwide statistics show an upward trend of the epidemic among women, calling for the need to address this problem. A case is made for the way in which gender structure and relations facilitate the vulnerability of women to this disease, increasing their risk of infection related with specific factors like migration, employment unsafe conditions, and domestic violence, among others. Emphasis is made on the main obstacles faced by women to flag their concerns and needs in society, as well as on their lack of empowerment to cope effectively with their problems. Some initiatives advanced by the organized civil society and governmental strategies are presented, including accomplishments, deficiencies, needs, and challenges. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are given, highlighting the need to establish and evaluate preventative programs and policies from a gender and human rights perspective, to promote a greater awareness and improved responses to the problems imposed on women by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Section: Empoderamiento Social Vs Invisibilidad De Las Mujeresunclassified

La vulnerabilidad e invisibilidad de las mujeres ante el VIH/SIDA: constantes y cambios en el tema

Herrera¹,

Campero²

2002

Salud pública Méx

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“…For example, the term 'men's responsibility' promoted in ICPD discourse has been criticised for failing to adequately capture the relational nature of sex and reproduction, and for implying that men act 'irresponsibly' by default. Feminists have also criticised the alternative discourse of 'male involvement', promoted by the UN, for obscuring historic gender inequalities, including ongoing relationships of male dominance (Corrêa, Maguire, & Figueroa-Perea, 2000;Verme, Wegner, & Jerzowski, 1996). Thus, the terminology of 'men as partners' was introduced to acknowledge that: (1) both women and men are involved in reproduction and (2) men may enhance, rather than invariably compromise, women's health care and empowerment (Becker & Robinson, 1998;Oudshoorn, 2003;Wegner, Landry, Wilkinson, & Tzanis, 1998).…”

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Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014: Insights from a Mexican HPV study

Wentzell¹,

Inhorn²

2014

Global Public Health

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Men are poorly integrated into sexual and reproductive health programmes, despite long-standing calls for their inclusion. From the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to the Policy Recommendations for the ICPD Beyond 2014, calls for 'rights for all' conflict with implicit, homogenising framing of men as patriarchal roadblocks to women's empowerment. This framing generates ambivalence about providing men's services, leading to emphasis on 'men as partners' supporting women's autonomous reproductive health decision-making rather than attention to both sexes' health needs. We argue that this framing also belies both the global rise of self-consciously non-traditional masculinities, and the fact that people's ostensibly individual sexual and reproductive health practices are profoundly relational. Here, we reimagine the concept of 'partnering' as an analytic for understanding how lived relationships influence both men's and women's sexual and reproductive practice. 'Partnering' in this sense is the context-dependent collaboration through which a range of gendered actors, not limited to male-female dyads, interact to shape health behaviour. We apply this approach to Mexican men's participation in a medical research on human papillomavirus transmission, demonstrating how spouses jointly refashioned male-focused health surveillance into familial health care and a forum for promoting progressive gender norms to their children and the broader society.

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‘It's kind of me taking responsibility for these things’: Men, vasectomy and ‘contraceptive economies’

Terry

Braun

2011

Feminism & Psychology

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This article examines vasectomy as a gendered practice of (non)reproductive masculinity. Reporting on interview-based data, in which a number of New Zealand men made sense of the operation, this article used critical thematic analysis to extract themes from semi-structured interviews with participants who had vasectomies in ‘typical’ circumstances. Primary themes of ‘taking responsibility’ and ‘vasectomy as an act of minor heroism’ were extracted from the data. We will argue that men constructed their ‘new found’ responsibility (and the heroic slant they added to it) within an ‘economy of gratitude’, meaning any involvement by men in the reproductive/contraceptive sphere is worthy of particular praise and value. While there may be some strategic value in these ideas, they draw upon existing discourses of orthodox masculinities and in this way may perpetuate (rather than challenge) the notion that men are doing something ‘special’ by having a vasectomy. This ‘specialness’ has the potential to ratify ongoing male privilege within heterosexual relationships, rather than the disruption that (at face value) it appears to be generating.

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La vulnerabilidad e invisibilidad de las mujeres ante el VIH/SIDA: constantes y cambios en el tema

La vulnerabilidad e invisibilidad de las mujeres ante el VIH/SIDA: constantes y cambios en el tema

Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014: Insights from a Mexican HPV study

‘It's kind of me taking responsibility for these things’: Men, vasectomy and ‘contraceptive economies’

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