Author: Penelope Schoeffel MeleiseaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Gender and HIV in the Pacific Islands Region
Author: Penelope Schoeffel MeleiseaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Gender and HIV in the Pacific Islands Region
Author: Penelope Schoeffel MeleiseaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : HIV infections
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Cultures and Contexts Matter
Author: Carol JenkinsPublisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9715616186
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Sex and Gender in the Pacific
Author: Angela Kelly-HankuPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000844315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice. Bringing together the work of scholars from across the Pacific region, this innovative volume showcases traditional knowledge and diverse disciplinary scholarship of policy and practice relevance. In addition to focusing on relationships, health, education, family and community, chapters engage with a number of cross-cutting themes, including violence, justice and rights, and sexuality and gender diversity. Drawing on the diversity and richness of the Pacific, its cultures, languages and people, the book lays the foundations for future conversations and scholarship for, and by, those within the Pacific. Sex and Gender in the Pacific is an important resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in Pacific studies, sexuality and gender studies, public health, nursing, public policy, sociology, education and anthropology.
Gender on the Edge
Author: Niko BesnierPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824838836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary, inevitable, and natural. The transgender also exposes a host of dynamics that, at first glance, have little to do with gender or sex, such as processes of power and domination; the complex relationship among agency, subjectivity, and structure; and the mutual constitution of the global and the local. Particularly intriguing is the fact that gender and sexual diversity appear to be more prevalent in some regions of the world than in others. This edited volume is an exploration of the ways in which non-normative gendering and sexuality in one such region, the Pacific Islands, are implicated in a wide range of socio-cultural dynamics that are at once local and global, historical, and contemporary. The authors recognize that different social configurations, cultural contexts, and historical trajectories generate diverse ways of being transgender across the societies of the region, but they also acknowledge that these differences are overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities. Rather than focus on the definition of identities, they engage with the fact that identities do things, that they are performed in everyday life, that they are transformed through events and movements, and that they are constantly negotiated. By addressing the complexities of these questions over time and space, this work provides a model for future endeavors that seek to embed dynamics of gender and sexuality in a broad field of theoretical import.
Time to Act
Author: Making Sense of AIDS
Author: Leslie ButtPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824832493
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and contemporary sexualities, relations of power, and moralities—themes that provide a powerful backdrop for twenty-first century understandings of the tensions between sexuality, religion, and politics in many parts of the world.
Gender and HIV prevention education in the Asia-Pacific region
Author: Second Generation Surveillance Surveys of HIV, Othr STIs and Risk Behaviours in 6 Pacific Island Countries
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789290612186
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This HIV surveillance project is a significant initiative for the South Pacific (SP) Region, which has been well supported by Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) and key United Nations and regional non-government organizations. This report presents a synthesis and analysis of data generated by the SGS surveys from the first round of surveys, including prevalence of disease, demographic descriptors, risk behaviours and knowledge of HIV. Analyses are intended to determine which activities will strengthen surveillance systems for the second wave of surveys in 2006 and to identify factors that can be targeted in STI/HIV prevention strategies. Results are presented as a regional summary followed by country-specific chapters and will be most useful for national Ministries of Health, in-country stakeholders and other regional agencies.
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