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South African Women Living with HIV
Global Lessons from Local Voices
Anna Aulette-Root (Author), Floretta Boonzaier (Author), Judy Aulette (Author)
9780253010544
Hardback, published 13 December 2013
200 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.408 kg
[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. [T]he book is a much-needed contribution to research on the social construction of illness, gendered inequality and global gender injustice, and the lives of people living with HIV. The developing theme of this text offers Africanists a solid platform to think critically about global politics, social class, racism, and gender injustice and their impact on the spread of HIV infection in marginalized populations south of the Sahara. This book will appeal to scholars and students of psychology, public health, public policy, and African studies.
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.
Acknowledgements
1. Women Living with HIV
2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community
3. 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 References
References
Index