Prevention : gender, sexuality, HIV, and the media in Côte d'Ivoire / Christine Cynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cynn, Christine, author.

Series:

Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment.

Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Côte d'Ivoire.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Côte d'Ivoire--Prevention.

HIV infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Place of Publication:

Columbus, OH The Ohio State University Press 2018

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Approximately 70% of the global total of people living with HIV/AIDS in 2016 were in sub-Saharan Africa. After delayed governmental responses, the media has been consistently deployed as an essential tool for prevention. But HIV prevention campaigns reflect multiple conflicting and shifting agendas that encompass far more than the imparting of information about how to limit the spread of the virus. In Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d'Ivoire, Christine Cynn draws from postcolonial, queer, and feminist film and media studies to critique global HIV prevention efforts and how they attempt to reshape gendered sexualities and notions of family in line with the rationality of neoliberalism.

Contents:

AIDS as an "imaginary syndrome": humor as negotiation of racism, austerity, and the single-party state

Popular satiric state television programs and HIV prevention

Regulating female reproductive potential: abortion and family as HIV prevention

The melodrama and the social marketing of HIV prevention

"Stay away from unhealthy places": sex work, condoms, and the NGO.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814254981

0814254985

9780814276563

0814276563

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access