South African Women Living with HIV Global Lessons from Local Voices
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2013
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253010544
Publisert
2013-12-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
399 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200
Biographical note
Anna Aulette-Root is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Floretta Boonzaier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Judy Aulette is Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to ending the spread of the disease.
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As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to tending the spread of the disease.
Acknowledgements1. Women Living with HIV 2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community3. Setting the Stage for Exploring a Support Group for HIV Positive Women in a Coloured Community in Cape Town 4. Marginalizing the Marginalized Through Multiple Stigmas 5. Disclosure for Better or Worse 6. Staking a Claim as Normal Through Work and Relationships with Men 7. Care Work 8. Care Work and Violent Men 9. Women's Bodies 10. Lessons for the World ReferencesReferencesIndex
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[The authors] conclude, principally, that we cannot design effective interventions against the virus, the stigma, and the social determinants of women's specific vulnerabilities to HIV without careful attention to gender. I believe they make the point convincingly, with a richness of detail and sensitivity to nuance and emotional lives that commonly escapes biomedical discourse. I would certainly recommend the book as a resource for people entering the field.
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In a world where HIV treatment has transformed the political and embodied landscape of the disease, this important book addresses the understudied gendered politics of HIV treatment.
Essential lessons for treating people with HIV
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253010544
Publisert
2013-12-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
399 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200
Biographical note
Anna Aulette-Root is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Floretta Boonzaier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Judy Aulette is Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.