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Peer reviewedBarker, Gary; Loewenstein, Irene – Youth & Society, 1997
Qualitative research with 127 low-income young men and women, aged 14 to 30, in Rio de Janeiro found rigid gender roles with males displaying widespread "machista" attitudes (an exaggerated deep structure of masculinity) and acceptance of violence against women that was greater in low-income urban areas. Implications for working with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries
