Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala's 2001 article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, is peer reviewed field research grounded in direct ethnographic engagement with communities practicing virginity testing in southern Africa. Its strength is that direct fieldwork published in an established anthropology journal. Its limit is that it reflects analysis current to its 2001 publication in a rapidly evolving public health and policy landscape; more recent research should be consulted for the practice's current prevalence and legal status.
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Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala's Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic, published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly in 2001, the top tier reflecting peer reviewed field research grounded in direct ethnographic engagement with communities practicing virginity testing in southern Africa. Its limit is that it reflects analysis current to its 2001 publication in a rapidly evolving public health and policy landscape; more recent research should be consulted for current prevalence and legal status. NotesPeer-reviewed medical anthropology study of virginity testing practices amid the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2001.
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AuthorSuzanne Leclerc-Madlala
PublisherMedical Anthropology Quarterly
Publication Year2001
Source TypeJournal article
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This source names Africa directly: "virginity testing in southern Africa."
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- Rituals, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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