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

by Susser, Ida

• ISBN13: 9781405155878
• ISBN10: 1405155876
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-27
• 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	p. vi
Preface - Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History, and Politics	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction: Global, Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS	p. 1
The Culture of Science and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS	p. 17
Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities	p. 45
The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy	p. 65
Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse	p. 91
The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected	p. 107
Contested Sexualities	p. 118
Public Spaces of Women's Autonomy: Health Activism	p. 139
"Where Are Our Condoms?" - Namibia	p. 155
Ju/hoansi Woman in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case	p. 171
Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Woman Leaders Among the Ju	p. 184
"The Power of Practical Thinking" - The Role of Organic Intellectuals	p. 199
Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance	p. 217
Notes	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 264
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.