Sexuality Politics And Aids In Brazil

Author : Herbet Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135721858
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Politics and AIDS in Brazil written by Herbet Daniel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Herbert Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780750701365
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Politics, and AIDS in Brazil written by Herbert Daniel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922751
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Sexual Subject written by Richard Parker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe. They map areas that are currently at the cutting edge of social science writing on sexuality, as well as the complex interface between theory and practice. Framing the Sexual Subject highlights the extent to which populations and communities that once were the object of scientific scrutiny have increasingly demanded the right to speak on their own behalf, as subjects of their own sexualities and agents of their own sexual histories.

Author : Nancy Krieger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351868632
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS written by Nancy Krieger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one short decade, the politics of AIDS has become the politics of survival. In a world whose social order is changing before our eyes, AIDS insistently brings new meaning to the age-old question of what it is we must do to survive-as individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as members of an interdependent world. This book brings together a collection of articles that frankly discuss what it will take to stop the AIDS epidemic and deal with the devastation it has already wrought.

Author : James Inciardi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429976992
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Drugs, And Hiv/aids In Brazil written by James Inciardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil ranked second only to the United States in the number of reported cases of AIDS. Because Brazil's extensive poverty and inequality, its fragile economic situation, and its limited network of health services, the scarce prevention/intervention resources targeted only the most visible at risk populations -- gay men, sailors, prostitutes, and street children. Virtually forgotten were Brazil's hidden drug users, as well as the tens of millions of individuals living in the country's thousands of favelas, or shantytowns, which are a characteristic part of almost every Brazilian city. In Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil the authors examine the emergence of AIDS in Brazil, its linkages to drug use and the sexual culture, and its epidemiology in such populations as cocaine users, "street children," and male transvestite prostitutes. Special attention is focused on an HIV/AIDS community outreach program established in Rio de Janeiro, which represented the first such prevention/intervention program in all of Brazil targeting indigent cocaine users. This 6-year initiative was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and carried out by the authors of this book. The research combines anthropological, sociological, and biological perspectives; all data were gathered through empirical and ethnographic techniques.

Author : João Biehl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691143854
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will to Live written by João Biehl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist João Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts, revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic bullet approach to health care. By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease, Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness, scope, and detail. At the core of Will to Live is a group of AIDS patients--unemployed, homeless, involved with prostitution and drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred stark photographs. Ethnography, social medicine, and art merge in this unique book, illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future, Will to Live promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in the theory and practice of global public health.

Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803902008
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Drugs and Criminal Justice written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1974-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Nunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil written by Amy Nunn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Javier Corrales
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973715
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America written by Javier Corrales and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Buenos Aires has guaranteed all couples, regardless of gender, the right to register civil unions. Mexico City has approved the Cohabitation Law, which grants same-sex couples marital rights identical to those of common-law relationships between men and women. Yet, a gay man was murdered every two days in Latin America in 2005, and Brazil recently led the world in homophobic murders. These facts illustrate the wide disparity in the treatment and rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations across the region. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America presents the first English-language reader on LGBT politics in Latin America. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and politicians, the chapters address LGBT issues in nations from Cuba to Argentina. In their many findings, two main themes emerge: the struggle for LGBT rights has made significant inroads in the first decade of the twenty-first century (though not in every domain or every region); and the advances made were slow in coming compared to other social movements. The articles uncover the many obstacles that LGBT activists face in establishing new laws and breaking down societal barriers. They identify perhaps the greatest roadblock in Latin American culture as an omnipresent system of "heteronormativity," wherein heterosexuality, patriarchalism, gender hierarchies, and economic structures are deeply rooted in nearly every level of society. Along these lines, the texts explore specific impediments, including family dependence, lack of public spaces, job opportunities, religious dictums, personal security, the complicated relationship between leftist political parties and LGBT movements in the region, and the ever-present "closets," which keep LGBT issues out of the public eye. The volume also looks to the future of LGBT activism in Latin America in areas such as globalization, changing demographics, the role of NGOs, and the rise of economic levels and education across societies, which may aid in a greater awareness of LGBT politics and issues. As the editors posit, to be democratic in the truest sense of the word, nations must recognize and address all segments of their populations.

Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136669957
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Equator written by Richard Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on long-term field research carried out over more than 15 years, Beneath the Equator examines the changing shape of male homosexuality and the emergence of diverse and vibrant gay communities in urban Brazil. Drawing on detailed ethnographic description of multiple sexual worlds organized around street cruising and impersonal sex, male prostitution, transgender performances, gay commercial markets and establishments, gay rights activism and AIDS service provision, Richard Parker examines the changing sexual identities, cultures and communities that have taken shape in Brazil in recent years. Also includes 15 maps.