Anna Bredström

Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities

Intersections of 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in Swedish HIV/AIDS Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities examines the ways in which migration, ethnicity and racism have been handled within Swedish HIV/AIDS policy since the early 1980s. By analysing policy documents and sex educational materials, Anna Bredström demonstrates that the policy's framing of different target groups and risk groups often reinforces stereotypical identities instead of focusing on risky practices. Applying postcolonial feminist theories, the book reveals how the policy discourse is permeated by conceptions of migrant cultures as steeped in tradition and unsusceptible to change. The book also discusses how both masculinity and femininity, as well as heterosexuality and homosexuality, feature in the policy discourse as demarcations between Western and non-Western subjects and identifies the challenges that such knowledge implies for feminist HIV/AIDS research. Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities emphasizes the importance of critical analyses of race and ethnicity in the field of HIV/AIDSand public health. It highlights the drawbacks involved in the enterprise of epidemiological categorization and reveals the intimate link between health policy and broader socio-political developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9783639175028
• ISBN-10: 3639175026
• Artikelnr.: 26994532

Autorenporträt

Anna Bredström is a researcher at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University in Sweden. This book is based on her doctoral dissertation.