AIDS, Sex, and Culture (eBook)

Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

Ida Susser (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-5910-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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.

Inhalt

List of Figures vi

Preface - Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History, and Politics viii

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction: Global, Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS 1

1 The Culture of Science and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS 17

2 Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities 45

3 The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy 65

4 Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse 91

5 The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected 107
By Sibongile Mkhize

6 Contested Sexualities 118

7 Public Spaces of Women's Autonomy: Health Activism 139

8 "Where Are Our Condoms?" - Namibia 155

9 Ju/'hoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case 171

10 Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Women Leaders Among the Ju 184

11 "The Power of Practical Thinking" - The Role of Organic Intellectuals 199

12 Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance 217

Notes 222

Bibliography 237

Index 264

Rezensionen

"The book makes an important contribution through its exploration
into forms of resistance to gender inequality . . . The book
provides a much-needed note of optimism in the field of gender and
AIDS as well as a strong case for why interventions that seek to
transform women's lives must be rooted in the lived experiences of
women in particular historical and social contexts." (Journal of
Global Health, 5 July 2011)

"Ida has produced an evocative and lively account of the
intersection between global and local dynamics in the Southern
African AIDS epidemic. . . it is an important book which will
appeal to a wide inter-disciplinary audience.. (The Geographical
Journal, 1 March 2010)

"AIDS, Sex, and Culture will make an excellent text for
undergraduate and graduate courses in global health needing to
enhance the quality of existing curricula. The many clinicians who
have essential expertise to contribute to building health
infrastructure but who do not have time to study the extensive
social science literature on the less developed world will welcome
this easy read." (JAMA, July 2010)"AIDS activists and
policy makers will be both impressed and ultimately heartened."
(CHOICE, January 2010)

"A brilliant analysis of sadness, deprivation and hope. A
must-read for anyone interested in the social fabric of
contemporary South Africa, for anyone committed to gender justice
around AIDS."

Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

"AIDS, Sex, and Culture greatly deepens our understanding
of the politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Susser's rich
ethnography shows how local activism and women's desire for
autonomy profoundly affect international, national, and scientific
enterprises."

Emily Martin, New York University

"Ida Susser´s book is an exemplary demonstration of the
social value of great scholarly research. It shows how patriarchal
culture provides the ground for the formation of destructive
networks of poverty, sex, and aids. Based on Susser´s
cross-cultural ethnographic work it is a master piece of
intellectually innovative, socially relevant research. It will be a
key reference for social scientists aiming to understand the world
in order to overcome our current misery. It should be mandatory
reading for students, academics, and policy makers around the
world."

Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley

An insightful, comprehensive, provocative personal and
anthropological perspective across two decades on how the
construction of gender has shaped responses to the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in women in southern Africa and globally.

A must read for anyone interested in understanding and making a
meaningful difference to the evolving HIV epidemic in women
globally and in southern Africa.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Centre for the AIDS Programme of
Research in South Africa

Ida Susser offers a powerful statement of the forces that have
shaped the epidemiology of AIDS in Africa. This visceral but
unsentimental account places women's sexuality and reproductive
autonomy -- as well as their unsubmissive assertion of rights to
knowledge, health care, and bodily integrity --at the vortex of
South Africa's transformations and is symptomatic of how gender
inequities shape the face of AIDS in the world today.

Ann Stoler, The New School

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropologie • Anthropology • Historical & Regional Anthropology • Historische u. regionale Anthropologie • Medical Anthropology • Medizinische Anthropologie • Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-5910-X / 144435910X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-5910-7 / 9781444359107