How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township
| dc.contributor.author | Bray, Rachel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-10T12:33:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-10T12:33:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-19T10:44:19Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to the subtle shifts in ‘householding’ practices and kinship relationships prompted by women's individual experiences and understanding of their HIV status, illness and treatment. Women's decisions to move or to arrange that other family members move can be explained by pre-existing threats to individual wellbeing or family residential security. But an HIV diagnosis can intensify a mother's thoughts and actions in relation to residential and emotional security, in particular on behalf of her children. In a context where extended periods of childcare by rural relatives is common, mothers with AIDS illness may gather all their children in their home to offer direct care, achieve intimacy and facilitate disclosure. They are likely to avoid making frequent contact with, and demands on, their elderly parents. Siblings are favoured as co-residents and confidants in disclosure, but their long-term support is contingent on reciprocity. Partners, where present, are valued for economic, social and emotional security. Women attempt to balance their children's nurturing, in the short and long term, with care of the self. Their efforts do not always succeed and can incur high costs to their wellbeing and relationships with their children. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/AJAR.2009.8.2.5.857 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Bray, R. (2009). How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township. <i>African Journal of AIDS Research</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28038 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Bray, Rachel "How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township." <i>African Journal of AIDS Research</i> (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28038 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bray, R. (2009). How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township. African Journal of AIDS Research, 8(2), 167-179. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Bray, Rachel AB - This paper explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to the subtle shifts in ‘householding’ practices and kinship relationships prompted by women's individual experiences and understanding of their HIV status, illness and treatment. Women's decisions to move or to arrange that other family members move can be explained by pre-existing threats to individual wellbeing or family residential security. But an HIV diagnosis can intensify a mother's thoughts and actions in relation to residential and emotional security, in particular on behalf of her children. In a context where extended periods of childcare by rural relatives is common, mothers with AIDS illness may gather all their children in their home to offer direct care, achieve intimacy and facilitate disclosure. They are likely to avoid making frequent contact with, and demands on, their elderly parents. Siblings are favoured as co-residents and confidants in disclosure, but their long-term support is contingent on reciprocity. Partners, where present, are valued for economic, social and emotional security. Women attempt to balance their children's nurturing, in the short and long term, with care of the self. Their efforts do not always succeed and can incur high costs to their wellbeing and relationships with their children. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - African Journal of AIDS Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township TI - How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28038 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28038 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Bray R. How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township. African Journal of AIDS Research. 2009; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28038. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | African Journal of AIDS Research | |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raar20 | |
| dc.subject.other | care | |
| dc.subject.other | HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.subject.other | households | |
| dc.subject.other | kinship | |
| dc.subject.other | motherhood | |
| dc.subject.other | moving house | |
| dc.subject.other | poverty | |
| dc.subject.other | social anthropology | |
| dc.subject.other | urban domestic relationships | |
| dc.title | How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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