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Title:Women, AIDS, and Economic Crisis in Central Africa
Author:Schoepf, Brooke G.ISNI
Year:1988
Periodical:Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:22
Issue:3
Pages:625-644
Language:English
Geographic term:Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:women
AIDS
Health and Nutrition
Women's Issues
Economics and Trade
Health, Nutrition, and Medicine
economics
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/485959
Abstract:This research note describes findings of the CONNAISSIDA Project, an interdisciplinary group which began in 1985 to study the social construction of and response to AIDS in Zaire. It focuses on the risks that AIDS presents for women, and gender perceptions of the disease. The approach used in this research is related to three methodological advances made in the study of African societies over the past two decades. The first is the importance of understanding how the macrolevel political economies affect sociocultural dynamics at the microlevel, including the spread of disease and social response to epidemics. The second is the attention to countercurrents of resistance to dominant ideologies and structures. The third is the linkage between sectors of the economy often conceived as separate, for example between formal and informal, or traditional and modern. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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