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Navigating unintelligibility: queer Australian young women’s negotiations of safe sex and risk
Citation
Grant, R and Nash, M, Navigating unintelligibility: queer Australian young women's negotiations of safe sex and risk, Journal of Health Psychology, 23, (2) pp. 306-319. ISSN 1359-1053 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1359105317741658
Abstract
Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer young women’s sexual health. To fill this knowledge gap, this article considers how Australian bisexual and queer young women understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 participants in Tasmania, findings reveal that although queer women understand heterosexual safe sex, there is little awareness of safer sexual practices with female partners. We argue that gendered sexual scripts shape perceptions of sexual health risk whereby queer women adopt multiple situation-dependent approaches to safer sex.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | queer, women's health, Tasmania, safe sex |
Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) |
Objective Field: | Women's Health |
UTAS Author: | Grant, R (Miss Ruby Grant) |
UTAS Author: | Nash, M (Associate Professor Meredith Nash) |
ID Code: | 122485 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-11-15 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-19 |
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