Sommer Marni, Likindikoki Samuel, Kaaya S
Marni Sommer is with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Samuel Likindikoki is with the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Sylvia Kaaya is with the School of Medicine, Muhimibili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Dec;104(12):2290-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302178. Epub 2014 Oct 16.
We explored the masculinity norms shaping transitions through puberty in rural and urban Tanzania and how these norms and their social-ecological context contribute to high-risk health behaviors. We conducted a qualitative case study of adolescent boys in and out of school in 2011 and 2012. Tanzania's social and economic development is reshaping the transition into young manhood. Adolescent boys are losing traditional mechanisms of pubertal guidance, and new meanings of manhood are arising from globalization. Traditional masculinity norms, including pressures to demonstrate virility and fertility, remain strong. Adolescent boys in modernizing Tanzania receive inadequate guidance on their burgeoning sexuality. Contradictory masculinity norms from family and society are shaping their sexual expectations, with implications for their engagement in unsafe sexual behaviors.
我们探究了塑造坦桑尼亚城乡地区青春期过渡的男性气质规范，以及这些规范及其社会生态背景如何导致高风险健康行为。我们在2011年和2012年对在校和辍学的青少年男孩进行了定性案例研究。坦桑尼亚的社会经济发展正在重塑向青年男性的过渡。青少年男孩正在失去传统的青春期引导机制，全球化带来了男性气质的新含义。包括展示男子气概和生育能力的压力在内的传统男性气质规范依然强大。在坦桑尼亚现代化进程中的青少年男孩在其迅速发展的性方面得到的指导不足。来自家庭和社会的相互矛盾的男性气质规范正在塑造他们的性期望，这对他们参与不安全的性行为产生了影响。
