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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583597703321

Autore

Wardlow Holly

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

California : , : University of California Press, , 2020

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

362.19697/92009953

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction "We Are No Longer Fenced In" -- 1 "Rural Development Enclaves" Commuter Mining, Landowners, and Trafficked Women -- 2 State Abandonment, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex -- 3 Love, Polygyny, and HIV -- 4 Teaching Gender to Prevent AIDS -- 5 Caring for the Self HIV and Emotional Regulation -- 6 "Like Normal" The Ethics of Living with HIV -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this vitally important 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 on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the 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. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today.