Trying to Survive in Times of Poverty and AIDS

"This book describes how poor women in Malawi endeavour to eke out a living by agreeing to have sex with men in bars, resthouses, workplaces and communities. Paradoxically, their fight for survival exposes them to the deadly risk of contracting aids. Peer education interventions - directed at prostitutes and assuming mutual solidarity- do not 'fit' these women because they compete for the same men and their money and the majority of women do not identify their sexual networking as prostitution." "This is a story of increased individuality and hankering, of vulnerability and resilience, of solidarity and competition, and of friendship and revenge. It is a study of the ambiguities and complexities of human relationships - of sex, survival and aids in Malawi, of women's views of these realities and the author's interpretations."--BOOK JACKET.

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

Het Spinhuis

מהדורות

1

עמודים

362

ISBN

9789055892303

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata