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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

List of Figures

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW

Study rationale and objectives

Purpose of the study

Summary of findings

II. BACKGROUND

Sex education in Costa Rica

Sexuality and young people

Risk of HIV infection through sexual contact

Communities studied

Life in the communities

Sexual contexts

III. METHODOLOGY

Organization of the study

Specific objectives

Target population and study sample

Research methods

Preparation of interview guide

Selection and training of interviewers

Conduct of in-depth interviews

Interviews with community leaders

Transcription and data analysis

Methodological challenges

IV. CONCEPTUAL FRAME FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SEXUAL CULTURE

Introduction to social constructionism

Basic principles

Sexual discourses

Sexual practice and identity

Gender, identity and sexual roles

Discourses and prevention

Power and knowledge articulated in discourses

How do discourses on sex emerge?

Reproduction of sexual discourses over time and space

Discourse internalization

How are discourses imposed?

Contradictions inherent within sexual discourses

Resistance to dominant discourses

Compartmentalization of discourses

V. HEGEMONIC SEXUAL DISCOURSES

Principles of religious discourses

Principles of gender discourses

Principles of scientific discourses

VI. ASSIMILATION OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSES

The Costa Rican context

Female religious discourses

Male religious discourses

Community religious discourses

Fundamentalist religious discourses

VII. ASSIMILATION OF GENDER DISCOURSES

How are sex roles internalized?

Public awareness of gender and the impulse for change

Male gender discourses

Female gender discourses

Gender discourses in the communities

The Villa del Mar model

Gender discourses in Villa del Sol

VIII. ASSIMILATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES

Scientific discourses and young people

Male discourses in Villa del Sol

Male discourses in Villa del Mar

Female discourses in Villa del Sol

Female discourses in Villa del Mar

IX. LEARNING AND IMPOSITION OF DISCOURSES

Transmission of messages

Learning and repetition

Autos da fé, essentialist thinking and maichaeism

Social instruments of control (punishment)

Individual instruments of control (the internal watchdog)

Tools and resources of the internal watchdog

X. CONTRADICTIONS AND COMPARTMENTALIZATION

Origins of contradictions

Contradictions and young people

Discursive contradictions and tolerance of homosexuality

Discourses and compartmentalization

XI. FORMAL RESISTANCES TO DISCOURSES

Erotic discourses

Romantic discourses

Feminist discourses

XII. INFORMAL RESISTANCES TO DISCOURSES

Resistance by young women in Villa del Mar

Resistance by young men in Villa del Mar

Resistance by young men in Villa del Sol

Resistance by young women in Villa del Sol

XIII. SEXUAL CULTURE AND ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO AIDS PREVENTION

Barriers to prevention

Towards a new model for prevention

Make prevention culture-specific

Empowering young people to make their own decisions must be a priority

Interventions should draw upon positive elements within discourses and sexual culture

Widen the scope of AIDS prevention so that it is included in other programmes

Recommended actions

Bibliography