Negotiating feminine identities and condom use scripts amongst heterosexual women in Singapore

• Main Author: Shrutika Ajit Mangharam
• Other Authors: Genaro Castro-Vázquez
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62421
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the contraceptive revolution in the 1960s, condoms have emerged as one of the most commonly used methods of contraception. This paper utilises gender schema theory and sexual scripts associated with gender identity to assess the relationship between women’s feminine identities and their condom...