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OverviewDrawing 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 HIV-positive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split, social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the experiences surrounding HIV-positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience, as well as between maternal experience and the social imagination. """"Contradicting Maternity"""" will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in psychology, the social sciences and the health professions. The sensitive and readable analysis will also be of interest to mothers, whether HIV-positive or not. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carol LongPublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.00cm Weight: 0.395kg ISBN: 9781868144945ISBN 10: 1868144941 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 June 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCarol Long is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a practicing clinical psychologist. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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