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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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    Daai Ding: Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2002
    Sex in men's prison most often happens in the context of 'prison marriages' with one man being a 'husband' and the other the 'wife'. Prisoners report that like (in their view of) heterosexual husband and wife relationships, the husband owns and controls the wife. Prison gangs identify who is a 'man' and a 'woman' and regulate prisoners' attempts to be promoted from 'woman' to 'man'.
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    Your Brother, My Wife: Sex and Gender Behind Bars

    2003
    While media reports on prison corruption have played a role in bringing sex, sexual violence and varying levels of sexual coercion more into the public arena, generally not much is understood about the dynamics of sex in men's prisons.
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    "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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    Gender and Sexuality Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Why are gender and sexuality important for policymakers, practitioners and activists? Sexuality and gender can combine to make a huge difference in people's lives - between well-being and ill-being, and sometimes between life and death.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 18: Sexuality

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 15: Engaging men in gender equality: positive strategies and approaches: overview and annotated bibliography

    Siyanda, 2006
    In various settings, small numbers of men and boys are changing their attitudes and behaviour towards women - supporting opportunities for women to earn an income outside the home, or speaking out against gender-based violence, for example. What makes this kind of resistance to rigid views of gender possible?

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