Kristen E. Cheney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226437408
- eISBN:
- 9780226437682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226437682.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter draws on youth participatory ethnographic fieldwork to provide a deeper understanding of the ways that children affected by AIDS actually experience orphanhood. It explores the social ...
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This chapter draws on youth participatory ethnographic fieldwork to provide a deeper understanding of the ways that children affected by AIDS actually experience orphanhood. It explores the social context of AIDS as a both a cause of social suffering and a context for the suffering of individual children, primarily due to the continued stigma of HIV/AIDS in Uganda that makes one’s status unspeakable. After a brief discussion of the methodological challenges posed by silences around suffering due to HIV/AIDS, the chapter discusses children’s and their caregivers’ efforts to cope with their circumstances and secure the resources necessary for survival in the aftermath of parental loss. It ends with a summary discussion of youth RAs’ recommendations for appropriate responses to AIDS-affected children’s suffering, including the contentious question of disclosure of HIV status.Less
This chapter draws on youth participatory ethnographic fieldwork to provide a deeper understanding of the ways that children affected by AIDS actually experience orphanhood. It explores the social context of AIDS as a both a cause of social suffering and a context for the suffering of individual children, primarily due to the continued stigma of HIV/AIDS in Uganda that makes one’s status unspeakable. After a brief discussion of the methodological challenges posed by silences around suffering due to HIV/AIDS, the chapter discusses children’s and their caregivers’ efforts to cope with their circumstances and secure the resources necessary for survival in the aftermath of parental loss. It ends with a summary discussion of youth RAs’ recommendations for appropriate responses to AIDS-affected children’s suffering, including the contentious question of disclosure of HIV status.
Andrew E. Stoner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042485
- eISBN:
- 9780252051326
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042485.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Shilts begins to offer his first writing at length about the experience of lesbian women via “Conduct Unbecoming.” Shilts’s new book further unpacks cultural beliefs about the roles of men and women ...
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Shilts begins to offer his first writing at length about the experience of lesbian women via “Conduct Unbecoming.” Shilts’s new book further unpacks cultural beliefs about the roles of men and women in society, and aspects of masculinity and femininity. U.S. military policy toward HIV testing is reported. While mainstream reviews of Shilts’s “Conduct Unbecoming” are favorable, LGBT leaders continue to question Shilts’s elevation as a “leader” or representative of the gay community. Shilts personally addresses the thin line he has walked between journalist and advocate for the issues he has covered.Less
Shilts begins to offer his first writing at length about the experience of lesbian women via “Conduct Unbecoming.” Shilts’s new book further unpacks cultural beliefs about the roles of men and women in society, and aspects of masculinity and femininity. U.S. military policy toward HIV testing is reported. While mainstream reviews of Shilts’s “Conduct Unbecoming” are favorable, LGBT leaders continue to question Shilts’s elevation as a “leader” or representative of the gay community. Shilts personally addresses the thin line he has walked between journalist and advocate for the issues he has covered.
