Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Gittings, Lesley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-02T07:19:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-02T07:19:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Caring is typically constructed as a feminized practice, resulting in women shouldering the burden of care-related work. Health-seeking behaviours are also constructed as feminine and men have poorer health outcomes globally. Employing men as carers may not only improve the health of the men they assist but also be transformative with regard to gendered constructions of caring. This working paper adds to the small but growing literature on men in caring by focusing on men as community care workers (CCWs) and their male clients. The empirical analysis draws on the perspectives of eight CCWs and three of their male clients from the Cape Town area. Using semi-structured interviews and observational home visits, this study explores the strategies that community care workers (CCWs) employ in providing support to HIV-positive male clients. In trying to avoid interrupting clients’ performance of hegemonic masculine norms, CCWs used techniques such as indirectly broaching sensitive subjects, acting friendly and being clear about the intention of their work. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Gittings, L. (2015). <i>Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21649 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Gittings, Lesley <i>Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21649 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gittings, L. (2015). Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa. CSSR Working Paper No. 363. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-350-3 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Gittings, Lesley AB - Caring is typically constructed as a feminized practice, resulting in women shouldering the burden of care-related work. Health-seeking behaviours are also constructed as feminine and men have poorer health outcomes globally. Employing men as carers may not only improve the health of the men they assist but also be transformative with regard to gendered constructions of caring. This working paper adds to the small but growing literature on men in caring by focusing on men as community care workers (CCWs) and their male clients. The empirical analysis draws on the perspectives of eight CCWs and three of their male clients from the Cape Town area. Using semi-structured interviews and observational home visits, this study explores the strategies that community care workers (CCWs) employ in providing support to HIV-positive male clients. In trying to avoid interrupting clients’ performance of hegemonic masculine norms, CCWs used techniques such as indirectly broaching sensitive subjects, acting friendly and being clear about the intention of their work. DA - 2015-09 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 SM - 978-1-77011-350-3 T1 - Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa TI - Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21649 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21649 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Gittings L. Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa. 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21649 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Aids and Society Research Unit | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Community care worker approaches to working with HIV-positive male clients in Cape Town, South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Working paper | en_ZA |