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Sexuality, social exclusion & human rights : vulnerability in the Caribbean context of HIV / edited by Christine Barrow, Marjan de Bruin, Robert Carr.

Title
Sexuality, social exclusion & human rights : vulnerability in the Caribbean context of HIV / edited by Christine Barrow, Marjan de Bruin, Robert Carr.
Publication
Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Barrow, Christine
  • Bruin, Marjan de.
  • Carr, Robert, 1963-
Description
xxxiv, 330 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Sexuality, social exclusion, and human rights
Subject
  • Caribbean Region
  • HIV Infections > prevention & control
  • HIV Infections > psychology
  • HIV infections > Government policy > Caribbean Area
  • HIV infections > Social aspects > Caribbean Area
  • HIV-positive persons > Civil rights > Caribbean Area
  • Health Policy
  • Health risk assessment > Caribbean Area
  • Homophobia > Caribbean Area
  • Homosexuality > psychology
  • Human Rights
  • Human rights > Caribbean Area
  • Marginality, Social > Caribbean Area
  • Risk-Taking
  • Risk-taking (Psychology) > Caribbean Area
  • Sex > Caribbean Area
  • Sex discrimination against women > Caribbean Area
  • Sex role > Caribbean Area
  • Social Isolation > psychology
  • Social integration > Caribbean Area
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Authorized sex : same-sex sexuality and law in the Caribbean / Tracy Robinson -- Drugs obscure the human rights issues for drug users : are demons and jumbies rights holders? / Marcus Day -- Charting a legal response to HIV and AIDS and work for the perspective of vulnerability in the epidemic of HIV / Robert Carr -- Speaking sexuality : the heteronationalism of MSM / Andil Gosine -- Positively limited : gender, sexuality and HIV and AIDS discourses in Barbados / David Murray -- Communication and HIV : multi-dimensional frustration / Marjan de Bruin -- Tackling the social complexities of HIV and AIDS : understanding the social roots of the epidemic and learning from developments in HIV communication / Robin Vincent -- Centering praxis in policies and studies of Caribbean sexuality / Kamal Kempadoo -- Afro-Surinamese women's culture and the long shadows of the past / Gloria Wekker -- Contradictory sexualities : from vulnerability to empowerment for adolescent girls in Barbados / Christine Barrow -- How risk and vulnerability become 'socially embedded' : insights into the resilient gap between awareness and safety in HIV / David Plummer -- Risking education : placing young MSM in the HIV prevention equation / R. Anthony Lewis -- HIV and AIDS, vulnerability and the governance agenda : a critical perspective on Barbados / Philip Nanto -- HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean : an assessment of the risk environment / Roger McLean, Karl Theodore, Caroline Allen, Martin Franklin and Christine Laptiste.
ISBN
  • 9789766373955 (pbk.)
  • 9766373957 (pbk.)