AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

by Bujra; Janet

• ISBN13: 9781841420240
• ISBN10: 1841420247
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-02-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

(Routledge) Univ. of Leeds, UK. Examines what can be done, particularly by women, to stem the tide of the epidemic. Explores responses to AIDS in six communities across Tanzania and Zambia. Show how men and women must be brought into the struggle against AIDS, but in ways that re-examine inequalities of power. Softcover, hardcover not available.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	viii
Series Editor's Preface	x
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
List of Abbreviations	xvii
Perspectives on gender and AIDS in Africa	1	(24)
Carolyn Baylies
Responses to the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania and Zambia	25	(34)
Janet Bujra
Carolyn Baylies
AIDS in Kapulanga, Mongu: poverty, neglect and gendered patterns of blame	59	(17)
Ann Sikwibele
Caroline Shonga
Carolyn Baylies
Sinners and outsiders: the drama of AIDS in Rungwe	76	(19)
Marjorie Mbilinyi
Naomi Kaihula
AIDS in Kanyama: contested sexual practice and the gendered dynamics of community interventions	95	(18)
Carolyn Baylies
Tashisho Chabala
Faustina Mkandawire
Target practice: gender and generational struggles in AIDS prevention work in Lushoto	113	(19)
Janet Bujra
Reconciling individual costs with collective benefits: women organising against AIDS in Mansa	132	(21)
Carolyn Baylies
AIDS activism in Dar es Salaam: many struggles; a single goal	153	(21)
Janet Bujra
Scholastica N. Mokake
The struggle continues: some conclusions	174	(24)
Carolyn Baylies
Janet Bujra
Bibliography	198	(16)
Index	214