num_pages: 362
description: This book describes how poor women in Malawi endeavor to make a living by agreeing to have sex with men in bars, rest houses, workplaces, and communities. Paradoxically, their fight for survival exposes them to the deadly risk of contracting Aids. Peer education directed at prostitutes, which assumes mutual solidarity, does not "fit" these women because they compete for the same men and their money, and because the majority of women do not identify their sexual networking as prostitution. This work is also about structural violence and socioeconomic and gender inequalities.
language: English
title: Trying to Survive in Times of Poverty and AIDS: Women and Multiple Partner Sex in Malawi
titlecomplete: Trying to Survive in Times of Poverty and AIDS: Women and Multiple Partner Sex in Malawi (Health, Culture and Society, Studies in Medical Anthropology)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Het Spinhuis