GGRB28H3 : Tutorial 1 Notes
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Third world women are viewed as uniformed. Our theory affects our practice, if we see women as passive, uneducated, we would approach them a certain way when it comes to health care. Western feminist are oppressing third-world women by not giving them any agency. While there is oppression among women in the third world, some have power in there own way. Talks about the media representations of aids in africa. Focuses on the stereotypes of african culture and sexual practices. To the world africa is seen as a homogenous society. Media portrays africans as apathetic towards hiv aids. African media is ignored by the west. The idea that aids came from haiti to america. Haitians are stereotyped as having aids due to race and culture. Farmer says that it was in fact americans partaking in the haitian sex trade that spread. The spread of aids follows three stages: americanization, feminization and.
