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Papers by Elanah Uretsky
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Critical Public Health, 2016
The China Journal, Jul 1, 2007
Sex and Sexuality in China Sex and Sexuality in China explores issues of sex and sexuality in a n... more Sex and Sexuality in China Sex and Sexuality in China explores issues of sex and sexuality in a non-western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behav-iours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10810730 2015 1018561, Apr 15, 2015
The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent e... more The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent exposure to antismoking messages may be an effective approach to prevent tobacco use among this population. Using a cross-sectional sample of 8,444 high school students in four Chinese cities, this study assessed the relation between self-reported exposure to antismoking messages from families, schools, and mass media and the rate of past 30-day smoking and smoking intention among junior and senior high school students. Results from logistic regression suggested that antismoking messages delivered via school and media inhibited both tobacco use and the intention to smoke. The effects of familial warnings about harmful effects of smoking, in contrast, were at best insignificant.
Journal of health communication, Jan 15, 2015
The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent e... more The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent exposure to antismoking messages may be an effective approach to prevent tobacco use among this population. Using a cross-sectional sample of 8,444 high school students in four Chinese cities, this study assessed the relation between self-reported exposure to antismoking messages from families, schools, and mass media and the rate of past 30-day smoking and smoking intention among junior and senior high school students. Results from logistic regression suggested that antismoking messages delivered via school and media inhibited both tobacco use and the intention to smoke. The effects of familial warnings about harmful effects of smoking, in contrast, were at best insignificant.
Health Promotion International, 2011
American Ethnologist, 2011
Critical Public Health, 2016
China’s transition from an injection drug-driven HIV epidemic to one primarily transmitted throug... more China’s transition from an injection drug-driven HIV epidemic to one primarily transmitted through
sexual contact has triggered concern over the potential for HIV to move into the non-drug-injecting
population. Much discussion has focused on the migrant men of China’s vast ‘floating population’
who are considered a high-risk group. As a result, many men who frequently engage in high-risk
behaviour but are not included in this especially vulnerable group are evading HIV prevention
messages. This paper highlights the socio-cultural and politico-economic factors that motivate many
of China’s wealthy businessmen and government officials, sometimes referred to as ‘mobile men with
money’, to engage in such behaviour. Examination of the activities related to the work of these men
reveals a situation where the confluence of a market-oriented economy operating within a socialiststyle
political system under the influence of traditional networking practices has engendered a unique
mode of patron-clientelism that brings them together over shared social rituals including feasting,
drinking and female-centered entertainment that is often coupled with sexual services. As a result,
consideration of the socio-cultural factors influencing these men’s sexual practices is important for
responding to the newly emerging stage of China’s HIV epidemic.
Mention of the term sex work often invokes images of marginalized women at risk for HIV infection... more Mention of the term sex work often invokes images of marginalized women
at risk for HIV infection. Such images, however, are counterintuitive to the
functional role intended by the movement that spawned use of the terms ‘sex
work’ and ‘sex worker.’ This article looks at the sexual practices of men in
urban China to argue for a return to a functional definition of ‘sex work’,
which was originally meant to legitimize the role sex plays in work. The
progenitors of this movement intended to use ‘sex work’ as a means to
legitimize sex as an income-generating activity for women involved in
prostitution. I show that sex can also serve a functional role in the
work-related duties of men seeking economic and political success in
contemporary urban China. Men in China utilize sex as one way for demonstrating
the loyalty necessary to access state-owned and controlled resources
in a market economy governed under a Leninist system. Overall, the article
demonstrates that reclaiming perception of sex work as a functional rather
than behavioral category can expand its use for preventing HIV among the
broad subset of people who engage in sex as part of their work.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Critical Public Health, 2016
The China Journal, Jul 1, 2007
Sex and Sexuality in China Sex and Sexuality in China explores issues of sex and sexuality in a n... more Sex and Sexuality in China Sex and Sexuality in China explores issues of sex and sexuality in a non-western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behav-iours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10810730 2015 1018561, Apr 15, 2015
The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent e... more The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent exposure to antismoking messages may be an effective approach to prevent tobacco use among this population. Using a cross-sectional sample of 8,444 high school students in four Chinese cities, this study assessed the relation between self-reported exposure to antismoking messages from families, schools, and mass media and the rate of past 30-day smoking and smoking intention among junior and senior high school students. Results from logistic regression suggested that antismoking messages delivered via school and media inhibited both tobacco use and the intention to smoke. The effects of familial warnings about harmful effects of smoking, in contrast, were at best insignificant.
Journal of health communication, Jan 15, 2015
The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent e... more The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent exposure to antismoking messages may be an effective approach to prevent tobacco use among this population. Using a cross-sectional sample of 8,444 high school students in four Chinese cities, this study assessed the relation between self-reported exposure to antismoking messages from families, schools, and mass media and the rate of past 30-day smoking and smoking intention among junior and senior high school students. Results from logistic regression suggested that antismoking messages delivered via school and media inhibited both tobacco use and the intention to smoke. The effects of familial warnings about harmful effects of smoking, in contrast, were at best insignificant.
Health Promotion International, 2011
American Ethnologist, 2011
Critical Public Health, 2016
China’s transition from an injection drug-driven HIV epidemic to one primarily transmitted throug... more China’s transition from an injection drug-driven HIV epidemic to one primarily transmitted through
sexual contact has triggered concern over the potential for HIV to move into the non-drug-injecting
population. Much discussion has focused on the migrant men of China’s vast ‘floating population’
who are considered a high-risk group. As a result, many men who frequently engage in high-risk
behaviour but are not included in this especially vulnerable group are evading HIV prevention
messages. This paper highlights the socio-cultural and politico-economic factors that motivate many
of China’s wealthy businessmen and government officials, sometimes referred to as ‘mobile men with
money’, to engage in such behaviour. Examination of the activities related to the work of these men
reveals a situation where the confluence of a market-oriented economy operating within a socialiststyle
political system under the influence of traditional networking practices has engendered a unique
mode of patron-clientelism that brings them together over shared social rituals including feasting,
drinking and female-centered entertainment that is often coupled with sexual services. As a result,
consideration of the socio-cultural factors influencing these men’s sexual practices is important for
responding to the newly emerging stage of China’s HIV epidemic.
Mention of the term sex work often invokes images of marginalized women at risk for HIV infection... more Mention of the term sex work often invokes images of marginalized women
at risk for HIV infection. Such images, however, are counterintuitive to the
functional role intended by the movement that spawned use of the terms ‘sex
work’ and ‘sex worker.’ This article looks at the sexual practices of men in
urban China to argue for a return to a functional definition of ‘sex work’,
which was originally meant to legitimize the role sex plays in work. The
progenitors of this movement intended to use ‘sex work’ as a means to
legitimize sex as an income-generating activity for women involved in
prostitution. I show that sex can also serve a functional role in the
work-related duties of men seeking economic and political success in
contemporary urban China. Men in China utilize sex as one way for demonstrating
the loyalty necessary to access state-owned and controlled resources
in a market economy governed under a Leninist system. Overall, the article
demonstrates that reclaiming perception of sex work as a functional rather
than behavioral category can expand its use for preventing HIV among the
broad subset of people who engage in sex as part of their work.