Ida Susser 
AIDS, Sex, and Culture [PDF ebook] 
Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

List of Figures vi
Preface — Southern Africa: A Personal Geography, History, and Politics viii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: Global, Inequality, Women, and HIV/AIDS 1
1 The Culture of Science and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS 17
2 Imperial Moralities and Grassroots Realities 45
3 The Transition to a New South Africa: Hope, Science, and Democracy 65
4 Of Nevirapine and African Potatoes: Shifts in Public Discourse 91
5 The Difference in Pain: Infected and Affected 107
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6 Contested Sexualities 118
7 Public Spaces of Women’s Autonomy: Health Activism 139
8 ‘Where Are Our Condoms?’ — Namibia 155
9 Ju/’hoansi Women in the Age of HIV: An Exceptional Case 171
10 Changing Times, Changing Strategies: Women Leaders Among the Ju 184
11 ‘The Power of Practical Thinking’ — The Role of Organic Intellectuals 199
12 Conclusions: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Resistance 217
Notes 222
Bibliography 237
Index 264

Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct professor of Socio-Medical Sciences at the HIV Center, Columbia University. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Medical Anthropology in the World System (Oxford University Press, 1982), The Castells Reader on the Cities and Social Theory (Blackwell, 2001), and Cultural Diversity in the United States (Blackwell, 2001). She received an award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, has served as President of the American Ethnological Society(2005-7), and is a founding member of Athena: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS.