Gender, HIV and Risk : Navigating structural violence / / by E. Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960999703321
• Autore: Anderson E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• ISBN: 9781349332564; 1349332569
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Collana: Gender and Politics, , 2662-5822
• Disciplina: 614.5/99392096897
• Soggetti: Social policy; Africa - Politics and government; Human rights; Public health; Medical economics; Social Policy; African Politics; Human Rights; Public Health; Health Economics
• 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: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Gendered Risk as Structural Violence; Gendered risk as structural violence in Malawi; Chapter outlines; 1 Framing the Virus: The Policy Response to HIV; Framing the global response; Neoliberalism and governing HIV risk; Conclusions; 2 Methodology; The Malawi case study; Research design; National-level fieldwork 2005-7; Local-level fieldwork 2011; Conclusions; 3 Sex for Security: Gendered Poverty; Gendered land distribution; Gendered agriculture and food insecurity; Gendered labour opportunities; Conclusions; 4 Sex for Well-being: The Gendered Value of LifeThe centrality of reproduction; Sexual initiations and cultural identity; Men as the head of the family; Sex for well-being; Conclusions; 5 Gender on the ; Agenda? Empowerment; Political empowerment: Gender on the agenda?; Empowerment technologies: Female condoms and microbicides; Economic empowerment: Social protection; Cognitive empowerment: Education for empowerment; Psychological empowerment: Valuing lives and contributions to society; Conclusions; Conclusion: Gender Social Justice; De-invisibilising gender as structural violence; The challenges for the academyThe challenges for policy; Appendix 1: Interviews, Consultations and Focus Groups; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi.