1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465278403321

Titolo

Strong women, dangerous times [[electronic resource] ] : gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa / / Ezekiel Kalipeni, Karen Flynn and Cynthia Pope, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-61324-111-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KalipeniEzekiel <1954->

FlynnKaren Coen

PopeCynthia

Disciplina

362.196/979200968

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in women - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Globalization, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : a feminist perspective / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi and Linda Semu -- Vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS in rural south Sudan / Ellen Percy Kraly, Erin Bergman, and Isaac Padiet -- The cultural context of women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection in Thyolo and Mulanje Districts of Malawi / Olivia Mechaju Liwewe, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Priscilla Upasani Matinga -- The risk of HIV among women in Malawi : the case of female domestic workers and their experiences with sexual abuse / Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Rachel Rodriguez -- The itinerant male, marriage, family, and gender relations in matrilineal southern Malawi : lessons and challenges for HIV/AIDS programming / Linda Semu -- Social-cultural predictors of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors among women in Kisumu District, Kenya / Veronica A. Ouma and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Sociocultural factors : norms of masculinity and feminity in the context of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique / Ana Loforte --

Factors affecting the male-female differences in condom perceptions and use in rural Malawi / Veronica Escamilla and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Cultural attitudes and ambivalence to the ABC model in Sub-Saharan Africa / Njeri Mbugua -- Use of cotrimozaxole prophylaxis at first



contact with a medical doctor : an assessment of a tertiary HIV clinic / C.E. Ndhlovu ... [et al.] -- Sexuality and the culture of silence in relation to HIV/AIDS in East Africa : a popular cultural approach / Mwenda Ntarangwi -- HIV/AIDS related art and popular culture in South Africa : an examination of community murals, billboards, campaigns, and graffiti art in addressing the HIV/AIDS campaign / Heather L. Schaad -- Religion and the rights of African women in the age of HIV/AIDS : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila -- "We must do whatever it takes" : promoting and sustaining Black Canadian women's health in Toronto / Karen Flynn and Audrey Taylor.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782397103321

Autore

Walker Ronald W (Ronald Warren), <1939->

Titolo

Massacre at Mountain Meadows [[electronic resource] ] : an American tragedy / / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-774005-7

1-281-51504-3

9786611515041

0-19-972199-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeonardGlen M

TurleyRichard E., Jr.,  <1956->

Disciplina

979.2/02

Soggetti

Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857

Massacres - Utah

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Map on lining papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Picture of Human Suffering: Mountain Meadows, May 1859; ONE: Exiles from Freedom: New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830–1846; TWO: Peals of Thunder: Utah, 1847–1857; THREE: No More Submit to Oppression: Silver Lake, July 24, 1857; FOUR: Avoid All Excitement, But Be Ready: Salt Lake City to Parowan, July 24–August 8, 1857; FIVE: Preaching a Military Discourse: Southern Utah, August 9–21, 1857; SIX: A Splendid Train: Arkansas to Utah, Emigration Season,



1857; SEVEN: Restless and Excited Beings: Northern Utah, July–August 1857

EIGHT: We Have Better Claim: Salt Lake to Fillmore, August 1857NINE: Men Have Magnified a Natural Circumstance: Corn Creek to Parowan, Late August–Early September 1857; TEN: Make It an Indian Massacre: Cedar City, July 24–September 5, 1857; ELEVEN: A Fearful Responsibility: Cedar City and Southwest, September 5–7, 1857; TWELVE: Finish His Dirty Job: Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7–10, 1857; THIRTEEN: Decoyed Out and Destroyed: Mountain Meado

Sommario/riassunto

On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant