South Africa has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. In terms of numbers, South Africa has the most HIV-positive people living inside its borders[1]. For South African HIV-positive women, “their sickness is a result of structural violence: neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault; rather, historically [...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’
Structural Violence & HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lauren Page Black, South Africa on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Government Inaction and the Spread of AIDS in South Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged LP Black, South Africa on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Government Inaction and the Spread of AIDS in South Africa
“South Africa has the largest absolute number of HIV-positive people in the world. In KwaZulu-Natal, studies suggest that over a third of all adults may be infected. Yet, from the president down, there is a failure to talk publicly about the [...]
A Gendered Analysis of Migration, Development, and AIDS in South Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged LP Black, South Africa on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Input Paper #2- South Africa
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South Africa and Gendered Nation-Building
Loretta Ross, in A Feminist Perspective on Katrina, expresses her belief that, “The hurricane and the subsequent flooding exposed the special vulnerability of women, children, the elderly and the disabled by revealing the harsh intersections of race, class, gender, ability and life expectancy” (Ross 2). She found that Katrina made visible [...]
Input Paper #1- South Africa
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South Africa: Women’s Role in Society during the Apartheid
In The Curious Feminist, by Cynthia Enloe, in the chapter on war and women in Tokyo, she describes how war-waging relies on woman, but they are forced to play a role that the military wants them to play (the role of appearing as a supportive wife or [...]
