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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Birds, Bees and Bias: How Absent Sex Ed Standards Fail New York's Students [PDF]
, 2012 Many public school districts across New York State provide sex-ed instruction that is inaccurate, incomplete and biased, according to Birds, Bees and Bias: How Absent Sex Ed Standards Fail New York's Students.
Alison Yager +5 more
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
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SEX BEFORE VIOLENCE: GIRLS, DATING VIOLENCE, AND (PERCEIVED) SEXUAL AUTONOMY [PDF]
, 2006 This article explores the phenomenon of girl violence by examining teen dating violence and girls\u27 experiences with intimate abuse both as victims and as perpetrators. While there is a tendency to view women\u27s experiences as victims of violence as
Hanna, Cheryl
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT States continue to impose E‐Cigarette (EC) taxes without clear evidence of the cross‐price elasticities between multiple EC types and between ECs and cigarettes. Moreover, existing literature focused on EC sales or prevalence outcomes instead of consumption units of various EC types.
Shaoying Ma +5 more
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Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids? [PDF]
Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners.
Michael Kremer
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Do As I Say...Should We Teach Only Abstinence in Sex Education? [PDF]
, 1997 In order to address these problems more effectively, it is not necessary to settle any of thepolitical debates that whirl around the issue of sexuality education. What is needed is a commitment to results.
Chris Collins
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Factors influencing abstinence, anticipation, and delay of sex among adolescent boys in high-STI prevalence communities [PDF]
, 2014 Purpose Abstinence is a core pregnancy and STI prevention strategy. We explore the attitudinal, behavioral, and family contexts relating to abstinence and the decision to delay sex among adolescent boys.
Auerswald, Colette L. +2 more
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? While the association between tobacco consumption and oral cancer is well established, the effect of cessation, particularly of chewing tobacco, the most common tobacco product in South Asia, is understudied. This case–control study in an Indian population demonstrates that a longer duration of tobacco smoking and chewing cessation is ...
Gayathri B. Pullat +8 more
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Postpartum sex taboos and child growth in Tanzania: Implications for child care
Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2020 The social context and cultural meaning systems shape caregivers' perceptions about child growth and inform their attention to episodes of poor growth. Thus, understanding community members' beliefs about the aetiology of poor child growth is important ...
Zaina Mchome +4 more
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