Gender Policy And Hiv In China

Author : Joseph Tucker,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren,Baochang Gu,Xiaoying Zheng,Stephanie Wang,Chris Russell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402099007

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Gender Policy and HIV in China by Joseph Tucker,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren,Baochang Gu,Xiaoying Zheng,Stephanie Wang,Chris Russell Pdf

China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China. Aspects of China’s governance - including administrative procedures, the developing legal system, social institutions, and the public health infrastructure – are instrumental in shaping strategies and responses to HIV. International studies suggest that women who are more economically and socially vulnerable may also have a greater risk of HIV infection, yet few initiatives have focused on discrete areas where achievable and sustainable gender policy measures could be linked to the public health response. This study presents perspectives ranging from criminology to social psychology to better understand how gender perspectives can inform HIV policy in the context of China.

Author : Joseph Tucker, Jr.,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1402099339

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Gender Policy and HIV in China by Joseph Tucker, Jr.,Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Qiang Ren Pdf

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800

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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China by Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan Pdf

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

Author : Joan Kaufman,Arthur Kleinman,Anthony Saich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171200

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AIDS and Social Policy in China by Joan Kaufman,Arthur Kleinman,Anthony Saich Pdf

This first English language book on China’s AIDS epidemic provides a picture of the current state of the epidemic, a social science and interdisciplinary perspective on gaps in the response, and a blueprint for needed actions. The book’s editors are leading experts on China’s AIDS epidemic, health and political systems. Contributors comprise some of the world’s leading Chinese and international researchers, policy-makers, and civil society representatives working on HIV/AIDS in China. The multi-disciplinary work provides a critically needed social science perspective and analysis of the epidemic, offers a framework for thinking about the spread of HIV in China, and includes suggestions for an effective policy response that also addresses social determinants.

Author : Dylan Sutherland,Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136594717

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HIV/AIDS in China - The Economic and Social Determinants by Dylan Sutherland,Jennifer Y.J. Hsu Pdf

"Providing a up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the most critical aspects of the growth of HIV/AIDS in China, this book moves beyond biomedical explanations to link the epidemic to broader issues of economic and social development."--Publisher's description

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004450233

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Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family and goes beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics.

Author : Scott Cunningham,Manisha Shah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199915248

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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution by Scott Cunningham,Manisha Shah Pdf

"A study of the economics of sex work"--

Author : Everett Zhang,Arthur Kleinman,Weiming Tu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136849169

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Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience by Everett Zhang,Arthur Kleinman,Weiming Tu Pdf

China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China during these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an emphasis on how to achieve an adequate life, the contributors integrate a whole range of life-related domains including: the death of Sun Zhigang, the peril caused by rising tobacco consumption, the emerging suicide intervention, the turning points in the fight against AIDS, the intensely evolving birth policy, the emerging biological citizenship, and so on. In doing so, they explore how biological life has been governed differently to enhance the wellbeing of the population instead of promoting ideological goals. This change, dubbed "the deepening in governmentality," is one of the most important driving forces for China’s rise, and will have huge bearings on how the Chinese will achieve an adequate life in the 21st century. This book presents works by a number of internationally known scholars and will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, Chinese philosophy, law, and public health.

Author : Zunyou Wu,Yu Wang,Roger Detels,Marc Bulterys,Jennifer M. McGoogan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811385186

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HIV/AIDS in China by Zunyou Wu,Yu Wang,Roger Detels,Marc Bulterys,Jennifer M. McGoogan Pdf

With HIV becoming the leading cause of infectious-disease mortality in Mainland China, this book focuses on tackling HIV/AIDS in the face of rapid political and economic change in China. Featuring contributions by over a dozen leading figures in the field, this book is the go-to text for any student or reader interested in how national and international organizations’ are attempting to control this epidemic. The book includes chapters on the epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of HIV, as well as several chapters that discuss in detail specific provincial- and national-level programs to control and treat HIV. It chronicles the Chinese government’s amazing about-face, as it replaced underfunded, non-evidence based policy decisions with successful, science-based approaches to disease control and prevention, including the adoption of once controversial needle-exchange programs and the establishment of a national HIV/AIDS data registry. It measures the success of national policy decisions, the implementation of treatment policies, and discusses the difficulty of accessing high-risk communities, including people who inject drugs, sex workers, and men who have sex with men – groups not easy to reach, study, engage in prevention programs, or treatment, for fear of stigmatization and loss of social status. Further, it documents the spread of HIV to other provinces, and the tragedy that befell repeat plasma donors in Henan and other poor provinces, where reused or improperly sterilized lab equipment caused some villages to have epidemic-level incidence rates. This book represents a positive contribution to the field of AIDS research, making vital, new information available to an interested readership.

Author : T. Zheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230623262

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Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China by T. Zheng Pdf

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.

Author : Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812291766

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China's Challenges by Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein Pdf

When the "fifth generation" of Communist Party leaders in China assumed top political positions in 2012-2013, they took the helm of a country that has achieved remarkable economic growth, political stability, and international influence. Yet China today confronts challenges at least as daunting as any it has faced since the reform era began in the late 1970s. In November 2013, the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee announced ambitious reforms to address vital issues, such as giving market forces a "decisive role" in the economy, strengthening the social safety net, assigning greater weight to factors other than economic growth and social order in evaluating local officials, promoting urbanization, and relaxing the "one child" policy. China's Challenges brings together fourteen experts on China's social, economic, political, legal, and foreign affairs to examine some of the nation's pivotal policy issues. Their wide-ranging analyses cover economic and social inequality, internal migration and population control, imperatives to "rebalance" China's economy toward domestic demand and consumption, problems of official corruption, tensions between legal reform and social order, and the strained relationships with neighboring countries and the United States that stem from China's rising power, military modernization, enduring territorial disputes, and rising nationalism in domestic politics. This timely volume offers a broad and comprehensive look at the issues facing China today and lays the groundwork for understanding the shifts to come. How—and how well—China handles these challenges not only will define China's trajectory for years to come, but will have repercussions far beyond China's borders. Contributors: Yong Cai, Jacques deLisle, Jane Duckett, Andrew Erickson, M. Taylor Fravel, Avery Goldstein, Yasheng Huang, Zai Liang, Benjamin Liebman, Melanie Manion, Barry Naughton, Daniela Stockmann, Robert Sutter, Guohui Wang.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn,Wendy Chavkin,José-Alberto Navarro
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782384380

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Globalized Fatherhood by Marcia C. Inhorn,Wendy Chavkin,José-Alberto Navarro Pdf

Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.

Author : Sharada Srinivasan,Shuzhuo Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319632759

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Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India by Sharada Srinivasan,Shuzhuo Li Pdf

​This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic development and globalization, gender, class, caste, families, migration and work. The chapters offer micro-level analyses contextualized in larger processes of change and push further existing understandings of the consequences of the demographic imbalance between men and women in China and/or India, particularly from a gender perspective. As such this book will be of interest to scholars and students in population studies, sociology, international development, gender studies, and Asian studies.

Author : Tiantian Zheng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824852979

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Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia by Tiantian Zheng Pdf

In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings and micro-politics of family structure, gender relationships, intimate romance, transactional sex, and sexual behaviors? This volume offers up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies: China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies. Whether highlighting intimate relationships between elite businessmen and their mistresses in China; nightclub performances by Thai men in Bangkok; single women’s views of romance, motherhood, and marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo; or male same-sex relationships in Pakistan—each chapter centers around the stories of the gendered subjects themselves and how they are shaped by outside forces. Taken together they provide a provocative entrée into the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in Asia. By foregrounding cross-cultural ethnographic research, this volume sheds light on how configurations of gender and sexuality are constituted, negotiated, contested, transformed, and at times, perpetuated and reproduced in private, intimate experiences. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and women’s and LGBTQ studies.

Author : Yang Shen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811358173

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Beyond Tears and Laughter by Yang Shen Pdf

This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, feminist scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens.