Monographien

Thege, Britta; Köchling-Farahwaran, Juliane; Börm, Sonja & Dettmers, Stephan (2021): Ways Out Of Social Isolation For Older People In The Context Of New Media. CONNECT-ED - A Project to Improve Social Participation.

The book introduces the concept of encounter CONNECT-ED from the practice of working with the elderly to impart media skills and presents empirical data on the social participation and quality of life of the participants. The research results show the potential of the Internet for older people and open up perspectives for gender- and age-sensitive advanced training opportunities.

Thege, Britta (2009): Women's agency in intimate partnerships. A case study in a rural South African community in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften.       

While numerous studies have focused on gender dynamics in sexual relations, the issue of sexual agency has barely been addressed in South Africa. This qualitative study aims to explore South African rural black women’s agency in intimate partnerships at a time of transition and amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic.It explores whether there is some empirical evidence for what is a common perception, namely the lack of agency that rural black women have in negotiating their sexual relationships and the impact that this has on the risk of HIV/AIDS. One of the assumptions made was that age is a critical variable because of the changing dynamics of time figurations in gender practice. The author suggests that in non-violent partnerships the decisive variable for a woman’s capacity for agency both in terms of decision-making on having sex as well as their potential for HIV self-protection strategies is marital status and not age.