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Women are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. By focusing on the pandemic at its epicentre in Southern Africa, this book explores the gendered power inequalities driving women´s vulnerability to HIV and provides suggestions of how to individually and collectively address women´s oppression.

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List of Illustrations Foreword; V.Reddy Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I Making the Case: Why a Feminist Response is Necessary Theories of Power: Feminisms in Action PART II Power over? The Influence of Donors Power with: Mobilizing Around Identity & Issue Power to: Multiple Vulnerabilities. Trafficking, HIV & AIDS in South Asia Power within: Lesbian Sexuality in the Jacob Zuma Rape Trial Power to: Local Action PART III Power as Solution Bibliography Index

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VICCI TALLIS Programme Manager for the HIV and AIDS Unit at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. She has worked in the area of gender, HIV and AIDS in South and Southern Africa for the past 23 years and was previously employed for the Association for Women´s Rights in Development.

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