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

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

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In this vitally important 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 on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive w...

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Wardlow, Holly,
Place / Publishing House:California : : University of California Press,, 2020
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1 ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction "We Are No Longer Fenced In"
  • 1 "Rural Development Enclaves" Commuter Mining, Landowners, and Trafficked Women
  • 2 State Abandonment, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex
  • 3 Love, Polygyny, and HIV
  • 4 Teaching Gender to Prevent AIDS
  • 5 Caring for the Self HIV and Emotional Regulation
  • 6 "Like Normal" The Ethics of Living with HIV
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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