| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
| Summary |
Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIVpositive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and oft |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motherhood -- South Africa
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HIV-positive women -- South Africa
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Mother and infant -- South Africa
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MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
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HIV-positive women
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Mother and infant
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Motherhood
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781868146246 |
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1868146243 |
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9781868148417 |
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1868148416 |
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