Abstract
From the beginning both researchers and the public closely associated HIV & AIDS with the homosexual male population. This provided opportunities within that community to come together to address the issue, but it also suggested blame and responsibility for their own suffering in the thinking of much of the public. However, other constituencies not always classified in “risk groups” language were or are also susceptible to higher risk in this pandemic. The poor, women, and people of color, particularly those of African descent, are among these. Yet the histories of these people in the pandemic are not always as visible. Although at times they overlapped or were lumped into the groups associated as “high-risk,” the unique complexities creating that risk went largely unanalyzed.
This devaluing of the body takes many forms in our society. In some cases it manifests itself as ageism; in others it is racism, sexism, heterosexism, homophobia, classism. All of these … destroy our health.1
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Emilie Townes, Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care (New York: Continuum, 1998), 174.
Greg Behrman, The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (New York: Free Press, 2004), 65. See Appendix C.
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (London: Routledge, 1966), 44.
See Gale Yee, Poor Banished Children of Eve (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2003).
See Kwok Pui-Ian, Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)
and Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995).
See Jean Comaroff, “Healing and the Cultural Order” or Isabel Mukonyora, “Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church” in Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge Power, and Performance, ed. R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
L. J. Jordanova, “Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality” in Nature, Culture and Gender, ed. Carol P. MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 66.
Carol Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 107.
Cindy Patton, Last Served? Gendering the HIV Pandemic (London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd, 1994), 9.
See Allan Brandt, No Magic Bullet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Cindy Patton, Sex & Germs: The Politics of AIDS (New York: Black Rose Books, 1986), 82.
Simon Watney, Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 105.
Carol Vance quoted in Evelynn Hammonds, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” in Feminism Meets Queer Theory, ed. Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997), 144ff.
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Trentaz, C.R.E.H. (2012). Dirty Details: The Making of “Risk Environments” at “Home” and “Abroad”. In: Theology in the Age of Global AIDS & HIV. Palgrave Macmillan’s Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272904_6
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