Contradicting Maternity : HIV-positive motherhood in South Africa

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Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the chil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Long, Carol
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : Wits University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motherhood.
Mother and infant.
HIV-positive women.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
Mere et nourrisson > Afrique du Sud.
Seropositives > Afrique du Sud.
Maternite > Afrique du Sud.
Mother and infant > South Africa.
HIV-positive women > South Africa.
Motherhood > South Africa.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIVpositive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and oft.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781868146246

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