Buch
Monografie
HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine : Embodied Democracy in the Global South
Verfasst von:
Mills, Elizabeth
Bristol:
Bristol University Press
,
2024
,
257 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
|---|---|
| Verfasst von: | Mills, Elizabeth |
| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Jahr: | 2024 |
| ISBN: | 152922196X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, this book highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women's precarity into the governance of technologies and the technologies of governance. Front Cover -- HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Background -- From the inside out: a personal history -- From the outside in: a political history -- Shifting landscapes -- A shifting biomedical landscape -- A shifting political landscape -- Book outline -- Conclusion -- 2 Concepts, Contexts and Methods -- Concepts -- Medicine and the politics of life -- The state of the body: embodiment -- The body of the state: governance and citizenship -- Global assemblages and actor networks -- Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body -- Contexts -- South Africa -- Brazil -- India -- Methods -- Research design -- Multi-sited ethnographic research -- Research methods -- Ethnographic research with women in Khayelitsha -- Narrative life-history interviews and body maps with the BWG -- Narrative life-history interviews -- Participant observation with TAC -- Key informant interviews with policy actors in Brazil and South Africa -- Reflexive analysis -- Ethics -- Conclusion -- 3 Gender, Health and Embodiment -- "So my baby gets HIV too": vertical pathways of precarity -- Lineages of loss -- Generations of life -- "It's hard to be a girl in this country": horizontal pathways of precarity -- It's hard to be a girl in this country -- Eschewing shweshwe: navigating risk and pleasure -- "I am the household": diagonal pathways of precarity -- Negotiating affect and harm -- Conclusion -- 4 New Generation Struggles -- "Amandla! Awethu!": the struggle for ARVs and embodied vitality -- New generation struggles and embodied precarity -- The context of the body: side effects, adherence and viral resistance -- "You feel tired!": treatment fatigue and viral resistance. | |
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