Hannah Mweru Mugambi

Nakuru Women's Culture-Dependent Responses to HIV Prevention

In Their Own Voices: Nakuru Women; HIV prevention and Condom Use Negotiation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An in depth interview study that seeks to
understand how low income, HIV positive women of
Nakuru, Kenya, perceive, and practice HIV/AIDS
prevention, and male condom use negotiation.
Focusing on the sample population s cultural,
geographic,economic, and political status, within
the local and global contexts of HIV/AIDS control
policy, and population politics, the study
identifies multiple culture-dependent strategies
that HIV positive women of Nakuru adopt, as a form
of personal and social agency in response to these
challenges. A set of feminist approaches to the
intersection of gender,race, sexuality, and
globalization are applied. Critical Race Feminism
and African Feminist Thought help to locate,
understand and position Nakuru women s lives and
limitations. Through their narratives, complex
heterosexual marriages and relationship types are
identified. A slum life of poverty, hunger, lack of
support from government, kinship, and international
organizations, inaccessibility to reproductive
health services, and gender powerlessness, become
major factors constraining successful HIV/AIDS
prevention practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9783639135411
• ISBN-10: 3639135415
• Artikelnr.: 26105917

Autorenporträt

Hannah Mugambi, Fulbright Scholar, Assistant Professor, and
Advisor, Women s Leadership Council,American University of
Nigeria. Coordinated Center for Women Studies,Egerton University
Kenya,founded an HIV/AIDS Care project. In North Eastern
Nigeria,
she has mounted the Women and Literacy Program. Lectured at
Johns Hopkins University.