TY - BOOK ID - 77893579 TI - Object matters PY - 2008 SN - 1781700877 1847791573 9781847791573 9781781700877 9780719075681 0719075688 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Teenagers KW - Condoms KW - Sex instruction KW - Safe sex in AIDS prevention. KW - Sexology KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - Sex KW - Gender identity. KW - HIV infections. KW - HIV (Viruses) infections KW - HTLV-III infections KW - HTLV-III-LAV infections KW - Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections KW - Lentivirus infections KW - Sexually transmitted diseases KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome KW - HIV infections KW - Immunological deficiency syndromes KW - Virus-induced immunosuppression KW - Sex research KW - Protected sex in AIDS prevention KW - Responsible sex in AIDS prevention KW - Sexual health KW - Sex education KW - Family life education KW - Sex counseling KW - Prophylactics (Condoms) KW - Rubbers (Condoms) KW - Sheath contraceptives KW - Male contraceptives KW - Adolescent sexuality KW - Teenage sexuality KW - Sexual behavior. KW - Social aspects. KW - Research. KW - Research KW - Prevention KW - Study and teaching KW - Equipment and supplies KW - Gender dysphoria KW - AIDS. KW - adolescence. KW - adolescents. KW - condom. KW - eroticisation. KW - prevention of HIV. KW - public health campaigns. KW - safer sex. KW - sex education policies. KW - sex research. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893579 AB - During the mid 1980's the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this book Nicole Vitellone investigates the consequences of this shift in the objects meaning. Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts Object matters addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and in particular the lives of adolescents. Addressing AIDS public health campaigns, sex education policies, sex research on adolescence and debates on the eroticisation of safer sex, the author looks at how the condom has affected our awareness of ourselves, of one another. ER -