Gender, HIV and Risk : Navigating structural violence / / by E. Anderson
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| Autore: |
Anderson E
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| Titolo: |
Gender, HIV and Risk : Navigating structural violence / / by E. Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 614.5/99392096897 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social policy |
| Africa - Politics and government | |
| Human rights | |
| Public health | |
| Medical economics | |
| Social Policy | |
| African Politics | |
| Human Rights | |
| Public Health | |
| Health Economics | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gender, HIV and Risk |
| ISBN: | 9781349332564 |
| 1349332569 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910960999703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Gender and Politics, . 2662-5822