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Title: | Women, AIDS, and Economic Crisis in Central Africa |
Author: | Schoepf, Brooke G. |
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. |