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Title: | Towards a Historical Perspective on Sexuality in Uganda: The Reproductive Lifeline Technique for Grandmothers and Their Daughters |
Author: | Stewart, Kearsley A. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 122-148 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | natality sexuality History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Women's Issues Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Historical/Biographical Cultural Roles Fertility and Infertility Demographics |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v047/47.3stewart.pdf |
Abstract: | Arguing that current health research on HIV-AIDS in Uganda is predominantly ahistorical and acultural, this article discusses a novel combination of the focus group method with the life history technique to create an original research tool: the reproductive lifeline. The paper presents new data on sexuality in Uganda reaching across three generations of Ugandans. Based on fourteen months of research in Hoima District of western Uganda from 1996 to 1997, the paper analyses one particular demographic variable, age at first live birth, in an effort to theorize about change over time in another important variable, age at sexual debut. The results were surprising: age at first live birth has not changed significantly over the past forty years in western Uganda and some evidence suggests that age at sexual debut has not changed much either. The popularity of the 'common sense' idea that youth are having sex at a younger and younger age is, therefore, not a reflection of demographic reality. Instead, it is an indication of the chaos and helplessness elders feel in the face of the new technology of sex - where achieving adulthood now means managing to avoid a fatal sexually transmitted disease while successfully realizing one's own fertility. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |