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Autore: | Browning Melissa <1977-> |
Titolo: | Risky marriage : the impact of Christian marriage on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania / / Melissa Browning |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.19697/92009678 |
Soggetto topico: | AIDS (Disease) - Tanzania |
Marriage - Religious aspects - Christianity - Tanzania | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographies and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: "It's Better to Be Single"; Chapter Two: Why Africa?; Chapter Three: "Let's Talk About Trust, Baby"; Chapter Four: Agency, Risk, and Relationality; Chapter Five: Marriage and Women's Bodies; Chapter Six: HIV and AIDS as Communal Dis-Ease; Chapter Seven: Learning from Stigma; Chapter Eight: Reimagining Christian Marriage in the Midst of a Pandemic; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Sommario/riassunto: | Rooted in the lives and experiences of women living with HIV and AIDS in Tanzania, Risky Marriage: HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania uses qualitative fieldwork with HIV positive women to ask why marriage is an HIV risk factor. Beginning with women's experience as a hermeneutical lens, Browning argues for re-imagined Christian conceptions of marriage, sexual ethics, and health to promote human flourishing and abundance in African communities. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Risky marriage |
ISBN: | 0-7391-7660-9 |
0-7391-7662-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810303403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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