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Gender, HIV and Risk : Navigating structural violence / by E. Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, E., Author.
- Series:
- Gender and Politics, 2662-5822
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Human rights.
- Public health.
- Medical economics.
- Social Policy.
- African Politics.
- Human Rights.
- Public Health.
- Health Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Policy.
- African Politics.
- Human Rights.
- Public Health.
- Health Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Gendered Risk as Structural Violence; Gendered risk as structural violence in Malawi; Chapter outlines; 1 Framing the Virus: The Policy Response to HIV; Framing the global response; Neoliberalism and governing HIV risk; Conclusions; 2 Methodology; The Malawi case study; Research design; National-level fieldwork 2005-7; Local-level fieldwork 2011; Conclusions; 3 Sex for Security: Gendered Poverty; Gendered land distribution; Gendered agriculture and food insecurity; Gendered labour opportunities; Conclusions
- 4 Sex for Well-being: The Gendered Value of LifeThe centrality of reproduction; Sexual initiations and cultural identity; Men as the head of the family; Sex for well-being; Conclusions; 5 Gender on the Agenda? Empowerment; Political empowerment: Gender on the agenda?; Empowerment technologies: Female condoms and microbicides; Economic empowerment: Social protection; Cognitive empowerment: Education for empowerment; Psychological empowerment: Valuing lives and contributions to society; Conclusions; Conclusion: Gender Social Justice; De-invisibilising gender as structural violence
- The challenges for the academyThe challenges for policy; Appendix 1: Interviews, Consultations and Focus Groups; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349332564
- 1349332569
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