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

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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 9, 2011 - Social Science - 304 pages

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
 

Contents

List at Figures
14
Acknowledgments
24
Global Inegualigl Women and HIVAIDS
1996
The Culture at Science and the F eminization 0t HI VAIDS
1956
Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities
1965
Hope Science
1980
Shifts in Public
1999
International Acti ism and South A rican Acti ists Con er
2003
Health Actiyism
Conclusions
Bring Us the Female Condom
Hoan omens Autonom
Women Leaders
ntellectuals
Notes
Bibliography

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About the author (2011)

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.

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