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Trying to survive in times of poverty and AIDS : women and multiple partner sex in Malawi
- Author
- Borne, Francine van den.
- Title
- Trying to survive in times of poverty and AIDS : women and multiple partner sex in Malawi / Francine van den Borne.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Het Spinhuis, 2005.
- Description
- xix, 362 p. : 1 map ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0610/2005477379.html
- Series
- Health, culture, and society
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-342) and indexes. Paperback.
- Contents
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- Background and context, fieldwork and ethics
- Discourses about AIDS
- Ambiguities of marriage : women as victims and instigators of unstable unions
- "There's nothing for free" : poor 'single' women entrapped in fraying safety nets
- Multiple partner sex in historical perspective
- Bar girls and freelancers in and around drinking establishments
- The dynamics of social and sexual networking
- Bartering sex in times of AIDS : respecting, trusting, and helping one another
- 'Prostitutes' and the benefiting bar environment
- Dissolution.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex behavior--Female--Malawi. AIDS--Female--Malawi. Prostitution--Female--Malawi. Sex customs--Malawi. Social conditions--Malawi.
- ISBN
- 9055892300 (pbk.) 9789055892303 (pbk.)