Strong women, dangerous times : gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Ezekiel Kalipeni, Karen Flynn and Cynthia Pope, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalipeni, Ezekiel, 1954-

Flynn, Karen Coen.

Pope, Cynthia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease) in women--Africa.

AIDS (Disease) in women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HIV/AIDS is holding firm as one of the worst diseases in history and the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. This collection of essays shares various case studies from sub-Saharan Africa and one from the African Diaspora that demonstrate how multi-faceted women's lives, and thus their HIV risk, are. Notwithstanding women's marginalization, the essays in this volume maintain that women in Africa are not merely puppets of globalization, cultural norms, or biological imperatives, but rather agents in their own livelihoods. In each case we see women presented with many challenges that they must navigate in order to mitigate their HIV risk. Some of the most trying challenges are based on economic and political structures that occur at various scales, from the global to the household. While structural factors are indeed important, the authors in this volume also show that traditional norms, cultural beliefs, and gender roles are equally necessary to consider when planning HIV prevention programs. Gender disempowerment is of particular importance, as it is seen in all of these case studies. In order for the HIV epidemic to dissipate in sub-Saharan Africa, prevention programs that truly understand the local circumstances and strive for gender equality must be instituted immediately and broadly.The book is divided into three parts, each concentrating on a different aspect of women and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The first part provides case studies of the social, political, economic, cultural, and geographic dynamics that play into women's and girls' risk for the virus. The second part transitions into case studies of prevention, concentrating on condom use. The chapters in the final section expand on Part II by highlighting other ways of promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention across the region. In short, the papers in this volume highlight the complicated decision making processes that women in countries of sub-Saharan Af

Contents:

Globalization, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : a feminist perspective / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi and Linda Semu

Vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS in rural south Sudan / Ellen Percy Kraly, Erin Bergman, and Isaac Padiet

The cultural context of women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection in Thyolo and Mulanje Districts of Malawi / Olivia Mechaju Liwewe, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Priscilla Upasani Matinga

The risk of HIV among women in Malawi : the case of female domestic workers and their experiences with sexual abuse / Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Rachel Rodriguez

The itinerant male, marriage, family, and gender relations in matrilineal southern Malawi : lessons and challenges for HIV/AIDS programming / Linda Semu

Social-cultural predictors of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors among women in Kisumu District, Kenya / Veronica A. Ouma and Ezekiel Kalipeni

Sociocultural factors : norms of masculinity and feminity in the context of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique / Ana Loforte

Factors affecting the male-female differences in condom perceptions and use in rural Malawi / Veronica Escamilla and Ezekiel Kalipeni

Cultural attitudes and ambivalence to the ABC model in Sub-Saharan Africa / Njeri Mbugua

Use of cotrimozaxole prophylaxis at first contact with a medical doctor : an assessment of a tertiary HIV clinic / C.E. Ndhlovu ... [et al.]

Sexuality and the culture of silence in relation to HIV/AIDS in East Africa : a popular cultural approach / Mwenda Ntarangwi

HIV/AIDS related art and popular culture in South Africa : an examination of community murals, billboards, campaigns, and graffiti art in addressing the HIV/AIDS campaign / Heather L. Schaad

Religion and the rights of African women in the age of HIV/AIDS : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila

"We must do whatever it takes" : promoting and sustaining Black Canadian women's health in Toronto / Karen Flynn and Audrey Taylor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61324-111-9

OCLC:

704276307