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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477251903321

Autore

Wardlow Holly

Titolo

Fencing in AIDS : gender, vulnerability, and care in Papua New Guinea / / Holly Wardlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.1969792

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in women

AIDS (Disease) in women - Papua New Guinea - Tari District

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : "We are no longer fenced in" -- "Rural development enclaves" : commuter mining, landowners, and trafficked women -- State abandonment, sexual violence, and transactional sex -- Love, polygyny, and HIV -- Teaching gender to prevent AIDS -- Caring for the self : HIV and emotional regulation -- "Like Normal" : The ethics of being HIV-positive.

Sommario/riassunto

"In her vitally important new book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and their experiences of being on antiretroviral therapy. Alive with women's stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Making crucial interventions into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, it is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing global AIDS crises today".