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Book SynopsisAs women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to tending the spread of the disease.
Trade Review[The authors] conclude, principally, that we cannot design effective interventions against the virus, the stigma, and the social determinants of women's specific vulnerabilities to HIV without careful attention to gender. I believe they make the point convincingly, with a richness of detail and sensitivity to nuance and emotional lives that commonly escapes biomedical discourse. I would certainly recommend the book as a resource for people entering the field.
* International Journal of African Historical Studies *
[T]he book is a much-needed contribution to research on the social construction of illness, gendered inequality and global gender injustice, and the lives of people living with HIV.
* International Social Science Review *
The developing theme of this text offers Africanists a solid platform to think critically about global politics, social class, racism, and gender injustice and their impact on the spread of HIV infection in marginalized populations south of the Sahara. This book will appeal to scholars and students of psychology, public health, public policy, and African studies.
* African Studies Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. Women Living with HIV
2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community
3. Setting the Stage for Exploring a Support Group for HIV Positive Women in a Coloured Community in Cape Town
4. Marginalizing the Marginalized Through Multiple Stigmas
5. Disclosure for Better or Worse
6. Staking a Claim as Normal Through Work and Relationships with Men
7. Care Work
8. Care Work and Violent Men
9. Women's Bodies
10. Lessons for the World References
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