Gender, HIV and Risk Navigating structural violence [Hardcover]

This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi.Introduction: Gendered Risk as Structural Violence 1. Framing the Virus: The Policy Response to HIV 2. Methodology 3. Sex for Security: Gendered Poverty 4. Sex for Well-being: The Gendered Value of Life 5. Gender on the Agenda?: Empowerment Conclusion: Gender Social Justice Appendix: Interviews, Consultations and Focus Groups Bibliography Index

'Anderson has produced a wonderful study of global health politics and policy. Pursuing a timely 'health from below' perspective informed by extensive fieldwork, Anderson's book advances a richly contextualized account of HIV/AIDS in Malawi offering much-needed space to those indigenous voices usually marginalized in international development and security discourses. Marshalling a wealth of interdisciplinary material, Anderson does a masterful job of rendering visible the gendered structural violence driving HIV-risk in Malawi, and the resulting need to think policy beyond empowerment alone. A highly illuminating and instructive read for anyone interested in global health, gender, HIV/AIDS and Africa.'

Professor Stefan Elbe, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy, University of Sussex, UK

'Gender HIV and Risk does what good books should do: it takes the controversial idea of gender as structural violence and makes it seem both obvious and important. It is a richly researched call to arms of the need to take structure seriously when thinking about HIV/AIDS and to navigate the intersectionality of gender, poverty, and security to fully understand the power dynamics of global health politics.'

Dr Sophie Harman, Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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