Fencing in AIDS : : gender, vulnerability, and care in Papua New Guinea / / Holly Wardlow.

"In her vitally important new book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and their experiences of being on antiretroviral the...

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Place / Publishing House:Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 201 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "We are no longer fenced in"
  • "Rural development enclaves" : commuter mining, landowners, and trafficked women
  • State abandonment, sexual violence, and transactional sex
  • Love, polygyny, and HIV
  • Teaching gender to prevent AIDS
  • Caring for the self : HIV and emotional regulation
  • "Like Normal" : The ethics of being HIV-positive.