Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Butt, Leslie,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386652
Table of Contents:
  • When there's no accessing basic health care : local politics and responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea / Nicole Haley
  • "It's mutual attraction" : transvestites and the risk of HIV transmission in urban Papua / Jack Morin
  • Fear and loathing in Papua New Guinea : sexual health in a nation under siege / Lawrence J. Hammar
  • Why are Kanak women more vulnerable than others to HIV? ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin
  • Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer
  • Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt
  • The trouble with trousers : gossip, kastom, and sexual culture in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings
  • Love as sacrifice : the romantic underground and beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua / Sarah Hewat
  • Smoke from fire : desire and secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands / Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru
  • "You have to understand, some of us are glad AIDS has arrived" : Christianity and condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow
  • Moral reform and miraculous cures : Christian healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Richard Eves
  • SikAIDS : deconstructing the awareness campaign in rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. McPherson
  • Fitting condoms on culture : rethinking approaches to HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani.