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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877295003321

Autore

Susser Ida

Titolo

AIDS, Sex, and Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-11605-3

9786612116056

1-4443-0616-2

1-4443-0617-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

326.196979200820968

362.196/979200968

362.196979200820968

362.196979200968

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - Africa, Southern

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - prevention & control

Women's Health

Preventive Health Services

Gender Identify

Socioeconomic Factors

Sexual Behavior

Africa South of the Sahara

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Preface - Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History, and Politics; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Global, Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS; 1: The Culture of Science and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS; 2: Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities; 3: The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy; 4: Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse; 5: The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected; 6: Contested Sexualities; 7: Public Spaces of Women's Autonomy: Health Activism; 8: "Where Are Our Condoms?" - Namibia



9: Ju/'hoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case10: Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Women Leaders Among the Ju; 11: "The Power of Practical Thinking" - The Role of Organic Intellectuals; 12: Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research.based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social conservatism in the US on AIDS prevention programs discussion of the experiences of women in areas ranging from Durban in KwaZulu Natal to rural settlements in Namibia and Botswana includes a chapter written by Sibongile Mkhize at the University of KwaZulu Natal who tells the story of her own fa