"Prostitution", "risk", and "responsibility" : paradigms of AIDS prevention and women's identities in Thika, Kenya

"Prostitution", "risk", and "responsibility" : paradigms of AIDS prevention and women's identities in Thika, Kenya

The focus of this thesis is an AIDS education programme targeting prostitutes in the industrial town of Thika, Kenya. The thesis challenges three key assumptions underlying the programme, namely: (1) prostitutes in Kenya form a readily identifiable, homogenous social category; (2) medically, they ar...

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Main Author: Kielmann, Karina
Other Authors: Lock, M. (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 1993
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Kenya > Thika > Prevention.
Prostitutes > Health risk assessment > Kenya > Thika.
Working class women > Kenya > Thika > Social conditions.
Medical anthropology > Kenya > Thika.
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