New Award-winning book: Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun
By Anika Wilson
I am happy to announce the publication of my book Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2013). This book explores rumors, gossip, and urban legends related to AIDS and gender conflict in Malawi with a particular emphasis on women’s perspectives and experiences. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. In fall 2014 it was awarded the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize from the American Folklore Society’s Women’s Section for pioneering and superior work in “women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.”
Click here for more information: http://bit.ly/folkloregenderAIDS
Please contact me at awilson@uwm.edu for potential speaking engagements.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Women’s stories express both the strengths and limitations they experience in seeking to collectively mitigate risk of HIV infection and reimagine intimate relationships.
Chapter 2 Advice is Good Medicine: Marriage, Advice, and the Comforts of Home
Drawing on a combination of interviews and ethnographic reports from local informants, this chapter explores women’s efforts to secure fidelity with actions directed toward altering their husbands’ extramarital sexual relationships.
Chapter 3 Funny, Yet Sorrowful: Narratives of Empowerment and Empathy in Woman and Against Woman Struggles
Communities harbor the sense that stories of woman against woman confrontations are at once a kind of collective or vicarious catharsis and a shameful, morally questionable opposition of vulnerable woman against vulnerable woman.
Chapter 4 “Nobody Fears AIDS, Mphutsi is More Fire”: Disease Rumors in the Age of Aids Treatment
Rumorsa of a new sexually transmitted disease called mphutsi shed light on evolving attitudes about AIDS in a time when drug treatment is more widely available than ever.
Chapter 5 Mgoneko: Magical Rape, Media Panic, and Gender-Based Violence
Popular urban legends about night sorcerers who use charms to seduce women speak to a gendered experience of helplessness and vulnerability and dramatize the media-fed notion of a gender battle sparked by international human rights organizations.
PRAISE:
By Anika Wilson
I am happy to announce the publication of my book Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2013). This book explores rumors, gossip, and urban legends related to AIDS and gender conflict in Malawi with a particular emphasis on women’s perspectives and experiences. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. In fall 2014 it was awarded the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize from the American Folklore Society’s Women’s Section for pioneering and superior work in “women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.”
Click here for more information: http://bit.ly/folkloregenderAIDS
Please contact me at awilson@uwm.edu for potential speaking engagements.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Women’s stories express both the strengths and limitations they experience in seeking to collectively mitigate risk of HIV infection and reimagine intimate relationships.
Chapter 2 Advice is Good Medicine: Marriage, Advice, and the Comforts of Home
Drawing on a combination of interviews and ethnographic reports from local informants, this chapter explores women’s efforts to secure fidelity with actions directed toward altering their husbands’ extramarital sexual relationships.
Chapter 3 Funny, Yet Sorrowful: Narratives of Empowerment and Empathy in Woman and Against Woman Struggles
Communities harbor the sense that stories of woman against woman confrontations are at once a kind of collective or vicarious catharsis and a shameful, morally questionable opposition of vulnerable woman against vulnerable woman.
Chapter 4 “Nobody Fears AIDS, Mphutsi is More Fire”: Disease Rumors in the Age of Aids Treatment
Rumorsa of a new sexually transmitted disease called mphutsi shed light on evolving attitudes about AIDS in a time when drug treatment is more widely available than ever.
Chapter 5 Mgoneko: Magical Rape, Media Panic, and Gender-Based Violence
Popular urban legends about night sorcerers who use charms to seduce women speak to a gendered experience of helplessness and vulnerability and dramatize the media-fed notion of a gender battle sparked by international human rights organizations.
PRAISE:
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