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 | 2016-05-24T09:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-24T09:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-24T07:46:13Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article 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 understandings of their HIV status, illness and treatment. Women's decisions to move or to arrange that other family members move may be explained by pre-existing threats to individual well-being 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 to 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. | en_ZA |
| 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/11427/19829 | 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/11427/19829 | 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. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1608-5906 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Bray, Rachel AB - This article 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 understandings of their HIV status, illness and treatment. Women's decisions to move or to arrange that other family members move may be explained by pre-existing threats to individual well-being 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 to 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 SM - 1608-5906 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/11427/19829 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19829 | |
| 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/11427/19829. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) | en_ZA |
| 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 | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.nisc.co.za/products/1/journals/african-journal-of-aids-research | |
| 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.title | How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |