Abstract
The paper describes and analyzes findings from a larger study of the links between low levels of condom use and impoverished, urban, African-American women's experiences and understandings of heterosexual relationships. The research identifies and explores psycho-social barriers to safer-sex. This article examines, in detail, HIV/AIDS risk denial and women's strategic use of unsafe (condomless) sex and "monogamy narratives" to build and to maintain this denial. The tendency to view urban African-American women's conjugal affiliations as instrumental is questioned.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Review
MeSH terms
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AIDS Serodiagnosis / psychology
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / prevention & control
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / psychology*
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / transmission
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Adolescent
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Black or African American / psychology*
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Communication Barriers
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Female
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
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Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
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Internal-External Control
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Marriage / psychology
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Poverty / psychology*
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Poverty Areas*
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Pregnancy
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Risk Factors
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Sexual Behavior*
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Sexual Partners / psychology
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Social Values