Modernizing Sexuality
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-993361-7 (ISBN)
Modernizing Sexuality illustrates how Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity come together in U.S. HIV prevention policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The results are calls for women's "right to say no " to sex and the promotion of "love matches " as the remedy to the "traditional cultural practices " said to put people at risk for HIV. Using the country of Malawi as a case study, Anne W. Esacove draws on narrative theory and a rich set of interview, archival, and ethnographic data to expose the unacknowledged - yet widespread and well-funded - moderniziation project at the heart of U.S. policy, and to argue that these efforts not only fail to translate into actionable steps for preventing HIV in the widespread, generalized epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa, but actually exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for women.
Moving beyond U.S. policy, Modernizing Sexuality also examines how people targeted by prevention efforts create everyday understandings of HIV risk and prevention. Deploying gossip, information gleaned, and strategically adapted from prevention efforts, and the assumption that sex is essential to life, Malawians tend to sort potential sexual partners into "tiers of desirability, " each with a corresponding HIV-prevention strategy. By illuminating the collective solutions and multiple paths of prevention used by Malawians, the analysis exposes fundamental flaws of U.S. HIV prevention policy and provides direction for potentially more effective strategies.
Stepping outside of the normal theoretical and methodological boundaries of HIV scholarship, Esacove raises important questions about lure of the story told through prevention policy, the risks of medicalizing social justice advocacy, and the limits of feminist and sexuality theories for directing prevention efforts, particularly cases when they mirror U.S. policy by erasing corporeal bodies and actual sex acts. Modernizing Sexuality closes with a fascinating alternative narrative to guide HIV prevention that reimagines risk and provides one alternative path for organizing policy efforts.
Anne W. Esacove, Associate Director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women at the University of Pennsylvania, is motivated by questions that arose during her public health training and years of working to promote sexual and reproductive health. In addition to U.S. global HIV-prevention policy, her research has challenged intentionality-based behavioral models of sexual decision-making, explicated the social movement framing and counterframing of "partial-birth" abortion, and explored the circumstances that lead women to use emergency contraception. Her current research examines the burgeoning natural death movement in the United States.
Foreword by Phillip L. Hammack
Chapter 1: Tracing the Story of AIDS: An Introduction to Narrative, "African" AIDS and the U.S. Prevention Response
Chapter 2: Embodied Risk: Gender, Modernity, & Tradition.
Chapter 3: Love Matches: The Policy Prescription for "Good" Sex
Chapter 4: The Sweetest Sex Possible...Under the Circumstances: The Everyday Prescription for "Good" Sex
Chapter 5: Prevention Strategies: Individualized & Bureaucratic Practices for Creating Modern Actors
Chapter 6: Renarrating Good Sex and Redirecting Prevention
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Sexuality, Identity, and Society |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 231 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 306 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-993361-8 / 0199933618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-993361-7 / 9780199933617 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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