The unseen things : women, secrecy, and HIV in northern Nigeria /

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What do HIV-positive women in Nigeria face as they seek meaningful lives with a deeply discrediting disease? Kathryn A. Rhine uncovers the skillful ways women defuse concerns about their wellbeing and the ability to maintain their households. Rhine shows how this ethic of concealment involves maskin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rhine, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Kano
Berner Handelskammer
HIV-positive women > Nigeria > Social conditions.
HIV-positive women > Behavior > Nigeria.
HIV-positive women > Nigeria > Attitudes.
AIDS (Disease) in women > Nigeria.
Secrecy.
HIV (Viruses)
Women.
HIV
Women
Séropositives > Nigeria > Conditions sociales.
Séropositives > Mœurs et comportement > Nigeria.
Séropositives > Nigeria > Attitudes.
Sida chez la femme > Nigeria.
Secret.
Virus de l'immunodéficience humaine.
Femmes.
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
AIDS (Disease) in women
Secrecy
Weibliche HIV-Infizierte
Soziale Situation
Frau
Sexualverhalten
Nigeria
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:What do HIV-positive women in Nigeria face as they seek meaningful lives with a deeply discrediting disease? Kathryn A. Rhine uncovers the skillful ways women defuse concerns about their wellbeing and the ability to maintain their households. Rhine shows how this ethic of concealment involves masking their diagnosis, unfaithful husbands, and unsupportive families while displaying their beauty, generosity, and vitality. As Rhine observes, collusion with counselors and support group leaders to deflect stigma, secure respectability, and find love features prominently in the lives of ordinary women who hope for a brighter future as the HIV epidemic continues to expand.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253021519
0253021510

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