AIDS, Sex, and Culture Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

by Susser, Ida

• ISBN13: 9781405155861
• ISBN10: 1405155868
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social conservatism in the US on AIDS prevention programs discussion of the experiences of women in areas ranging from Durban in KwaZulu Natal to rural settlements in Namibia and Botswana includes a chapter written by Sibongile Mkhize at the University of KwaZulu Natal who tells the story of her own family's struggle with AIDS

Author Biography

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct professor of Socio-Medical Sciences at the HIV Center, Columbia University. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Medical Anthropology in the World System (Oxford University Press, 1982), The Castells Reader on the Cities and Social Theory (Blackwell, 2001), and Cultural Diversity in the United States (Blackwell, 2001). She received an award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, has served as President of the American Ethnological Society(2005-7), and is a founding member of Athena: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Preface û Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History and Politics

Acknowledgments

Introduction Global Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS

The Culture of Science and the Feminization of AIDS

Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities

The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy

Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse

The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected: By Sibongile Mkhize

Contested Sexualities

Public Spaces of WomenÆs Autonomy: Health Activism

öWhere Are Our Condoms?ö û Namibia

Ju/Æhoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case

Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Women Leaders Among the Ju

öThe Power of Practical Thinkingö û The Role of Organic Intellectuals

Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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