1. Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities: Intersections of 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in Swedish HIV/AIDS Policy (dissertation, 2008) 2. Sexual Risk Taking from an Intersectional Perspective: Experiences and Understandings among Young People in Sweden

Abstract

Project 2
Previous research indicates that young people’s sexual risk taking varies depending upon gender, ethnicity and class. A main aim of the study is therefore to explore the issue from an intersectional perspective focusing on how intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class shape young people’s sexual practice in general and sexual risk taking in particular. In addition, the project consists of two subprojects, one focusing on sexual risk taking in relation to alcohol consumption, and the other on sexual risk taking among gay and lesbian youth.

Theoretically, the project sets out from a perspective where sexual risk taking (as well as alcohol consumption) is understood as shaped by socio-cultural and structural factors. By adopting a qualitative approach (using focus groups and individual interviews), the project seeks to expand a research field that is dominated by quantitative studies.

Keywords

Gender, Health, Intersectionality, HIV/AIDS, Sexual risk taking

Publications

Bredström, A. (2003) “Gendered Racism and the Production of Cultural Difference: Media Representations and Identity Work among ‘Immigrant Youth’ in Contemporary Sweden”, Nora: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 11, No 2:78?88.

Bredström, A. (2005) “Love in Another Country?: ‘Race’, Gender and Sexuality in Sexual Education Material Targeting Migrants in Sweden”, Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society (Sage), Vol. 8, No. 4: 517?535.

Bredström, A. (2006) “‘Invandrare’ i svensk hiv- och aidspolicy 1985-2005: Från kulturpluralism till neo-assimilering” in de los Reyes, P. (ed.) Välfärdens gränser: bidrag till utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering, Stockholm: Fritzes (pp. 69?109).

Bredström, A. (2006) “Intersectionality?: a Challenge for Feminist HIV/AIDS Research”, European Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3:229?243.

Bredström, Anna (2008) Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities: Intersections of ‘Race’, Gender and Sexuality in Swedish HIV/AIDS Policy (Linköpings universitet, VDM Verlag 2009)

Bredström, A. (2009) “Sweden: HIV/AIDS Policy and the ‘Crisis’ of Multiculturalism”, Race and Class, Vol 50, No. 4: 57?74.

Bredström, A. (2010) “Åk inte dit! Exotiska platser och förföriska andra i svensk hiv/aids-policy” in Jansson, M., Wendt, M., and Åse, C. (eds), Den nationella väven: Feministiska analyser, Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Bredström, Anna (2011) Alkohol, unga och sexuellt risktagande. Stockholm: Smittskyddsinstitutet