Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New GuineaA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the women’s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today. |
Other editions - View all
Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea Holly Wardlow Limited preview - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
affective Africa AIDS education anger angry Anna Anthropology antiretroviral ARVs asserted behavior bridewealth chapter clan clinic compensation condoms cultural dawe anda economic edited emotional employees enclave ethical example extramarital fear feel female feminist fence FIFO gender inequality Global groups Hela Highlands Province HIV vulnerability HIV-positive HIV-positive women HIV/AIDS hospital Huli women husband infected intimacy Ipili Jacka jenda knew land living with HIV male marital marriage married masculine Médecins sans frontières medicine Melanesia men’s Mendi mining moral National normal Oil Search one’s Papua New Guinea participants patients percent pigs police polygyny Porgera Port Moresby rape rural sexual partners sexual violence social sometimes Southern Highlands Southern Highlands Province stigma talk Tari area tested tion Tok Pisin told transactional sex University Press village court virtue ethics virus wanted Wardlow wife wives woman women I interviewed workshop worry young