African
Women and HIV/AIDS: Gendered Experiences in Senegal, South Africa,
and
Immigrant
African Communities in Philadelphia
Wednesday, March
24, 2004
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill
Johnson Crockett Building
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A seed grant from the Rutgers Research Council jointly awarded
to the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the Institute
for Research on Women spurred a consideration of African women's
experiences with HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. The
organizers gratefully acknowledge support from the Rutgers Research
Council and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, Rutgers and from the co-sponsoring entities: the Departments
of Africana Studies and Anthropology, the Center for African Studies,
and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
Bernedette Muthien,
Founder and Executive Director, Engender, South Africa
Muthien is the author of “Strategic Interventions: Intersections
between Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS” and “When
Rights are Wronged: Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights in
Africa.” A participant in the 1999 Women’s Global
Leadership Institute hosted by the Center for Women’s Global
Leadership at Rutgers, Muthien’s professional life has echoed
the belief that the personal is political, and the global local,
and hence her work has consistently centered on the issues of
gender, human rights, and peace. Engender, a South African NGO,
provides research and capacity building on genders and sexualities,
human rights, justice, and peace to promote equity and social
change.
Ellen E. Foley, Health and Societies Program,
University of Pennsylvania
Foley is the author of “No Money, No Care: Women and Health
Care Reform in Senegal” (Urban Anthropology, Studies
of Cultural Systems & World Economic Development, 30:1,
2001) and an article in progress entitled “Negotiating Fertility
and Reproduction: Women at the Crossroads of Islam, Development,
and Wolof Culture in Senegal.” Her dissertation, “In
Sickness and in Health: Responding to Disease and Promoting Health
in Senegal,” addresses the impact of privatization and decentralization
of the public health sector on rural and urban women’s health
with a particular focus on women’s health knowledge as shaped
by biomedicine, Islam, and local knowledge traditions. In addition
to gender, power, and health issues in Senegal, her work focuses
on health and social issues of African immigrant women in Philadelphia.
Julie Livingston, History, Rutgers University,
moderator
Livingston is the author of “Pregnant Children and Half-Dead
Adults: Modern Living and the Quickening Life-Cycle in Botswana”
(Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77:1, 2003) and
“Reconfiguring Old Age: Elderly Women and Concerns Over
Care in Southeastern Botswana” (Medical Anthropology,
22:2, 2003). Her work focuses on issues of health, healing, and
the human body, while exploring questions about disability and
able-bodiedness, gender and aging, the history of international
health and development, and African medicine and nursing care.
The colloquium was planned
in conjunction with Douglass College's conference Women
in the Era of Globalization: Power and Gender on March 25,
2004, which includes the L'Hommedieu lecture by Mary
Robinson (Director, Ethical
Globalization Institute; former United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, 1997-2002), and a panel moderated by Joanna
Regulska and featuring Bernedette Muthien
with other guests.
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