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Feminisms, HIV and AIDS: Subverting Power, Reducing Vulnerability 2012th Edition
Author(s): V. Tallis (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 30 July 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230348807
- ISBN-13: 9780230348806
Book Description
Women are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. By focusing on the pandemic at its epicentre in Southern Africa, this book explores the gendered power inequalities driving women’s vulnerability to HIV and provides suggestions of how to individually and collectively address women’s oppression.
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About the Author
VICCI TALLIS Programme Manager for the HIV and AIDS Unit at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. She has worked in the area of gender, HIV and AIDS in South and Southern Africa for the past 23 years and was previously employed for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.
