Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea

by Holly Wardlow

Overview

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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 with the women’s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520355514
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/21/2020
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Holly Wardlow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and author of Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society.
 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: "We Are No Longer Fenced In" 1

1 "Rural Development Enclaves": Commuter Mining, Landowners, and Trafficked Women 27

2 State Abandonment, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex 54

3 Love, Polygyny, and HIV 79

4 Teaching Gender to Prevent AIDS 102

5 Caring for the Self: HIV and Emotional Regulation 123

6 "Like Normal": The Ethics of Living with HIV 148

Epilogue 169

Notes 177

References 181

Index 197

Editorial Reviews

"Ethnographically compelling, with each chapter focused on themes of relevance to Pacific scholars and social scientists more broadly, this monograph will be a central text in medical anthropology, critical public health and fields concerned with Pacific Islands. It should be widely read at all levels."

Journal of Pacific History