AIDS, sex, and culture: global politics and survival in Southern Africa

Moving from her own story growing up in South Africa, anthropologist Ida Susser, looks at the AIDS epidemic in Africa in terms of its impact on a particularly vulnerable—both biologically and socially—group: women. Susser argues that, despite the high rates of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa and the widespread problems poor women confront, we can identify what she terms “spaces of hope”--that is, venues in which women are making positive changes to improve their situations. We can, as well, locate community and international movements working successfully toward the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. INDICE: 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 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: By Sibongile Mkhize.6. Contested Sexualities.7. Public Spaces of Womens Autonomy: Health Activism.8. Where Are Our Condoms? Namibia.9. Ju/hoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case.10. 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

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-5587-8
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2009
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