Hiv/AIDS in India: Voices from the Margins

ISBN-13: 9780367886738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Sunita Manian

Opis

This book explores the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India. Based on research in Tamil Nadu, it presents experiences of those marginalized by their sexuality and/or gender, their struggles and their triumphs. Based on interviews with male and female sex workers, men who have sex with men, aravanis (male to female transgenders) and HIV positive women – group

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Chronicle of a Disease Foretold

2. Non-Heteronormative Desire: Then and Now

3. My Life is Nothing But a Question Mark: Stories of Sexual Minorities

4. One Foot in the River, One Foot in the Mud: The Perils of Living a Double-Life

5. Changing Status of Non-conjugal Heterosexuality in India

6. Take Our Truth to the World: Challenges and Aspirations of Sex-Workers

7. There is was no Wrongdoing on my Part, Sister: Shame, Stigma among Women Living with HIV/AIDS

8. Should we Not Live a Life? HIV Positive Women’s Tales of Hope and Survival

9. The Way Forward: Advocacy and Change

O autorze

Sunita Manian is Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies at Georgia College and State University, USA.