Trying to Survive in Times of Poverty and AIDS (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789055892303)

This book describes how poor women in Malawi endeavor to make a living by agreeing to have sex with men in bars, rest houses, workplaces, and communities. Paradoxically, their fight for survival exposes them to the deadly risk of contracting Aids. Peer education directed at prostitutes, which assumes mutual solidarity, does not "fit" these women because they compete for the same men and their money, and because the majority of women do not identify their sexual networking as prostitution. This work is also about structural violence and socioeconomic and gender inequalities.

Author: Francine Van Den Borne
ISBN-10: 9055892300
ISBN-13: 9789055892303
Publisher: Het Spinhuis
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.88w x 0.91d