Collective Care : Indigenous Motherhood, Family, And Hiv/Aids

Downe, Pamela, 1964- author.

EBook 2021

"Collective Care provides an ethnographic representation of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan's HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of c...

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