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Gendered Epidemic

Author : Nancy L. Roth,Katie Hogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136673320

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Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS cases among white men have fallen, yet the largest increases are among women. Weaving together theoretical, critical, and practical perspectives, Gendered Epidemic is a collection of essays that questions the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose new theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV.

Gendered Epidemic

Author : Nancy L. Roth,Katie Hogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136673252

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Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS cases among white men have fallen, yet the largest increases are among women. Weaving together theoretical, critical, and practical perspectives, Gendered Epidemic is a collection of essays that questions the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose new theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV.

Feminist Global Health Security

Author : Clare Wenham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197556931

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"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and asking women to defer pregnancy. Both actions are inherently gendered and reveal a distinct lack of consideration of the everyday lives of women. These policies placed women in a position whereby were blamed if they had a child born with Congenital Zika Syndrome, and at the same time governments required women to undertake invisible labour for vector control. What does this tell us about the role of women in global health security? This feminist critique of the Zika outbreak, argues that global health security has thus far lacked a substantive feminist engagement, with the result that the very policies created to manage an outbreak of disease disproportionately fail to protect women. Women are both differentially infected and affected by epidemics. Yet, the dominant policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease to state economies, rather than protecting those who are most at risk. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault-line for global health security and women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist security studies concepts of visibility; social and stratified reproduction; intersectionality; and structural violence. It argues that it was no coincidence that poor, black women living in low quality housing were the most affected by the Zika outbreak and will continue to be so, until global health security is gender mainstreamed. More broadly, I ask what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control sustainability?"--

Gender and HIV/AIDS

Author : Dr Jelke Boesten,Professor Nana K Poku
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499039

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Gender issues are central to the causes and impact of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. The editors bring together cutting edge contemporary scholarship on gender and AIDS in one volume. They address questions related to gender and sexuality, how women and men live the epidemic differently and how such differences lead to different outcomes. The volume joins research on Africa, Asia and Latin America and illustrates how the epidemic has different gendered characteristics, causes and consequences in different regions. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate the fundamental ways that gender influences the spread of the disease, its impact and the success of prevention efforts. This scholarly, interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the themes and issues of gender, AIDS and global public health and informs students, policy makers and practitioners of the complexity of the gendered nature of AIDS.

Gender and HIV/AIDS

Author : Nana K. Poku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317130635

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Gender and HIV/AIDS by Nana K. Poku Pdf

Gender issues are central to the causes and impact of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. The editors bring together cutting edge contemporary scholarship on gender and AIDS in one volume. They address questions related to gender and sexuality, how women and men live the epidemic differently and how such differences lead to different outcomes. The volume joins research on Africa, Asia and Latin America and illustrates how the epidemic has different gendered characteristics, causes and consequences in different regions. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate the fundamental ways that gender influences the spread of the disease, its impact and the success of prevention efforts. This scholarly, interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the themes and issues of gender, AIDS and global public health and informs students, policy makers and practitioners of the complexity of the gendered nature of AIDS.

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

The Makings of a Modern Epidemic

Author : Dr Kate Seear
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409460824

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The Makings of a Modern Epidemic by Dr Kate Seear Pdf

This timely book addresses the scholarly neglect of endometriosis by the social sciences, offering a critical assessment of one of the world’s most common - and burdensome - health problems for women. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, including science and technology studies, feminist theory and queer theory, The Makings of a Modern Epidemic explores the symbolic, discursive and material dimensions of the condition. It demonstrates how shifts in thinking about gender, the body, race, modernity and philosophies of health have shaped the epidemic, and produces a compelling account of endometriosis as a highly politicised and grossly neglected disease.

AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa

Author : Carolyn Baylies,Janet Bujra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135434083

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AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa by Carolyn Baylies,Janet Bujra Pdf

While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and Tanzania, and focuses on the gendered aspect of the struggle against AIDS. The authors study the severity of the epidemic and the threat it poses to the population and society in Tanzania and Zambia. They argue that the success of strategies against the spread of AIDS in Africa rests on their recognition of existing gendered power relations and that this success might be enhanced if the strategies are built on existing organisational skills and practices, especially among women. Their conclusions have repercussions for all countries around the world, and especially the rest of Africa.

Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War

Author : J. Fisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137054388

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Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War by J. Fisher Pdf

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future.

The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women

Author : Nancy Goldstein,Jennifer L Manlowe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814730935

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The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women by Nancy Goldstein,Jennifer L Manlowe Pdf

From their posts at the center of the pandemic - in the laboratory, the academy, clinics, and community based organizations - experts such as Evelynn Hammonds, Risa Denenberg, Michelle Murrain, and Paul Farmer criticize blind spots in the recognition and treatment of HIV in women and articulate accessible and practical solutions to specific areas of difficulty.

Women Take Care

Author : Katie Hogan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501725685

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Self-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates—these "good women" are all familiar figures in the visual and print culture relating to AIDS. In a probing critique of that culture, Katie Hogan demonstrates ways in which literary and popular works use the classic image of the nurturing female to render "queer" AIDS more acceptable, while consigning women to conventional roles and reinforcing the idea that everyone with this disease is somehow suspect.In times of crisis, the figure of the idealized woman who is modest and selfless has repeatedly surfaced in Western culture as a balm and a source of comfort—and as a means of mediating controversial issues. Drawing on examples from journalism, medical discourse, fiction, drama, film, television, and documentaries, Hogan describes how texts on AIDS reproduce this historically entrenched paradigm of sacrifice and care, a paradigm that reinforces biases about race and sexuality. Hogan believes that the growing nostalgia for women's traditional roles has deflected attention away from women's own health needs. Throughout her book, she depicts caretaking as a fundamental human obligation, but one that currently falls primarily to those members of society with the least power. Only by rejecting the stereotype of the "good woman," she says, can Americans begin to view caretaking as the responsibility of the entire society.

Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS

Author : Sheila Aikman,Elaine Unterhalter,Tania Boler
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855985868

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Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS by Sheila Aikman,Elaine Unterhalter,Tania Boler Pdf

The book shows that while gender inequalities in society are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, democratic learning environments informed by evidence-based policy, implemented with leadership for transforming deeply held values and beliefs regarding sexual behaviour and sexuality can be empowering.

AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa

Author : Carolyn Louise Baylies,Janet M. Bujra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1841420247

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AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa by Carolyn Louise Baylies,Janet M. Bujra Pdf

Annotation This book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers. They study the severity of the AIDS epidemic and the threat it poses to the population and society in Tanzania and Zambia.

Last Served?

Author : Cindy Patton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0203018060

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Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. "Last Served?" recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book details why and how this situation occurred.; The author suggests that new visibility of women cannot in itself quickly or easily change the underlying assumptions which made women simultaneously radiant figures of sexual purity, and a magnet for blame during the pandemic's first decade.; "Last Served?" makes clear how the different ways of posing and answering questions about women and HIV are grounded in already existing ways of thinking about gender, and how these underlying preconceptions sometimes create situations whereby attempts to address the practical needs of women often result in reinforcement, or introduction of new forms of male domination.; Combining detailed analysis with practical suggestions, "Last Served?" provides insights into the current debates about women and AIDS and suggests future directions for work to overcome discrimination, faulty planning and misrepresentation.

Last Served?

Author : Cindy Patton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 074840189X

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Last Served? by Cindy Patton Pdf

Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. "Last Served?" recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book details why and how this situation occurred.; The author suggests that new visibility of women cannot in itself quickly or easily change the underlying assumptions which made women simultaneously radiant figures of sexual purity, and a magnet for blame during the pandemic's first decade.; "Last Served?" makes clear how the different ways of posing and answering questions about women and HIV are grounded in already existing ways of thinking about gender, and how these underlying preconceptions sometimes create situations whereby attempts to address the practical needs of women often result in reinforcement, or introduction of new forms of male domination.; Combining detailed analysis with practical suggestions, "Last Served?" provides insights into the current debates about women and AIDS and suggests future directions for work to overcome discrimination, faulty planning and misrepresentation.