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Women globally, and especially in sub Saharan Africa, are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. Despite an intensified focus on women and girls in an attempt to reduce vulnerability to HIV, there has been little progress made. This is in part because the sophisticated analysis of risk, vulnerability and understanding of the pandemics is not matched by equally sophisticated responses. Male domination, evident at every level of society, fuels the pandemics, and makes women vulnerable. Using feminist understandings of power and domination this book explores the notion of subverting power. Through a series of case studies the notion of negative and positive power is examined; positive power includes power with, power to and power within. Examples of women's resistance individually and collectively using the different types of power are highlighted, showing that women are not powerless and can affect change in their lives.
| Figures and Tables | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| Abbreviations and Acronyms | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Process and power | p. 3 |
| What this book is about | p. 7 |
| Organization of the book | p. 9 |
| Making the Case: Why a Feminist Response is Necessary | p. 17 |
| The three epidemics: HIV, AIDS and stigma | p. 17 |
| The impact of HIV and AIDS on women | p. 21 |
| Understanding vulnerability | p. 25 |
| Theories of Power: Feminisms in Action | p. 44 |
| The 'problem' of gender | p. 44 |
| Understanding power | p. 49 |
| Using feminist theory: power as an explanation for vulnerability | p. 52 |
| Feminisms as resistance | p. 56 |
| Power Over? The Influence of Donors | p. 65 |
| The funding terrain for women, HIV and AIDS in southern Africa | p. 67 |
| Defining the role of donors | p. 74 |
| Power With: Mobilizing Around Identity and Issue | p. 84 |
| Social movements, women's movements | p. 85 |
| Women's involvement in HIV and AIDS | p. 87 |
| Case study: organizing around identity; women living with HIV and AIDS | p. 88 |
| Mobilizing around identity | p. 89 |
| Solidarity: fighting for sexual and reproductive rights | p. 100 |
| Case study: mobilizing around an issue; global action for microbicides | p. 105 |
| What is a microbicide? | p. 108 |
| The politics of microbicide research | p. 109 |
| Microbicide activism: different role players, different agendas? | p. 112 |
| Microbicide activism at a local level | p. 116 |
| Power To: Multiple Vulnerabilities, Trafficking, HIV & AIDS in South Asia | p. 119 |
| Understanding trafficking | p. 120 |
| HIV and AIDS in South Asia | p. 125 |
| Understanding the realities of women's and girls' lives in South Asia | p. 127 |
| Trafficking, HIV and AIDS: power as problem | p. 133 |
| Current responses to trafficking | p. 136 |
| Power Within: Lesbian Sexuality in the Jacob Zuma Rape Trial | p. 145 |
| Locating the trial: politics, sexual violence and gender in South Africa | p. 146 |
| Lesbian identity and experience in post-apartheid South Africa | p. 149 |
| The Trial | p. 155 |
| The Judgment | p. 166 |
| Outside the courtroom: understanding 'power with' | p. 169 |
| Power To: Local Action | p. 172 |
| Context of women and AIDS in South Africa | p. 173 |
| Case study: Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) | p. 177 |
| Addressing power | p. 180 |
| Women in Leadership: the GAF empowerment programme | p. 181 |
| Power as Solution | p. 193 |
| The impact of addressing power to effect change | p. 200 |
| Putting the theory into practice | p. 203 |
| Bibliography | p. 205 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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ISBN: 9780230348806
ISBN-10: 0230348807
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 248
Published: 4th September 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.1
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.416
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