AIDS, Sex, and Culture

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

Auteur
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.

Résumé

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

Contenu

List of Figures vi

Preface Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History, and Politics viii

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction: Global, Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS 1

1 The Culture of Science and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS 17

2 Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities 45

3 The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy 65

4 Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse 91

5 The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected 107
By Sibongile Mkhize

6 Contested Sexualities 118

7 Public Spaces of Women's Autonomy: Health Activism 139

8 Where Are Our Condoms? Namibia 155

9 Ju/'hoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case 171

10 Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Women Leaders Among the Ju 184

11 The Power of Practical Thinking The Role of Organic Intellectuals 199

12 Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance 217

Notes 222

Bibliography 237

Index 264