HIV/AIDS and Subaltern Autonomous Rationality: A Call to Re-Center Health Communication in Marginalized Sex Worker Spaces
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
HIV/AIDS, Sex Work, Subaltern, Health Communication
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2011.589457
Abstract
Sex workers in India constitute a marginalized population. They are considered at high risk of HIV/AIDS and are stigmatized for “selling sex” in a culture that generally censures sex outside marriage. HIV/AIDS initiatives targeted at this population have mostly adhered to promoting condom use, increasing awareness, and encouraging blood tests to screen for HIV/AIDS. Missing from this discourse are voices of sex workers and their autonomous consciousness. Based on an analysis of interview data from an eight-week field project, this paper seeks to centralize sex worker subaltern rationality in a call to reframe expert-led HIV/AIDS communication efforts that cater to sex worker communities.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Communication Monographs, v. 78, issue 3, p. 391-408
Scholar Commons Citation
Basu, Ambar, "HIV/AIDS and Subaltern Autonomous Rationality: A Call to Re-Center Health Communication in Marginalized Sex Worker Spaces" (2011). Communication Faculty Publications. 446.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/446
