Methodology

Abstract

The ways in which HIV is conceptualised and responded to serves to invisiblise gender as structural violence, as the preceding chapter has considered. Despite the rhetoric, top-down policy initiatives are largely blind to the complexities of the gender context of risk and so have failed to instigate meaningful social change on the ground. Instead, the dominant neoliberal response justifies, manages, reinforces and even perpetuates the structures that underscore risk in the first place. This book therefore contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as a form of structural violence to locate what is missing.