dc.contributor.author | Rhine, Kathryn Angela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-06T19:30:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-06T19:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rhine, Kathryn A. (2009) "Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria" Anthropol Q. 2009 ; 82(2): 369–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.0.0067. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13629 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically empowered patients. HIV-positive women in northern Nigeria have appropriated a support group to facilitate their marriage arrangements. In this group, women negotiate the threats of stigma and the promises of respectable marriage through what I call the management of ambiguity surrounding their HIV status. I further argue that the practice of support group matchmaking reveals the local political economic dynamics that shape social and illness trajectories in resource-poor settings. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | For the fieldwork upon which this article is based, I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program, the Fulbright IIE, Fulbright Hays, and Boren fellowship programs, the National Science Foundation, and the Population Studies & Training Center at Brown University. I am indebted to Daniel Smith, Elizabeth Roberts, Yukiko Koga, Rebecca Peters, Harris Solomon, Inna Leykin, and the fellows at the Cogut Center for the Humanities for their critical reading and feedback. Thanks also to the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. My research would not be possible without the assistance of Khadijah Ibrahim Nuhu, Rashida Abdullahi, and the many women with whom I have worked over the past six years. | |
dc.publisher | The John Hopkins University Press | |
dc.relation.hasversion | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3740595/ | |
dc.subject | HIV/AIDS | |
dc.subject | Stigma | |
dc.subject | Support Groups | |
dc.subject | Kinship | |
dc.subject | Gender Politics | |
dc.subject | Nigeria | |
dc.title | Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Rhine, Kathryn A. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Anthroplogy | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/anq.0.0067. | |
dc.subject.uri | http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1133365 | |
dc.subject.uri | http://id.worldcat.org/fast/987769 | |
dc.subject.uri | http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205229 | |
dc.subject.fast | Stigma (Social psychology) | |
dc.subject.fast | Kinship | |
dc.subject.fast | Nigeria | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |