Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS

Pranee Liamputtong holds a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Pranee has previously taught in the School of Sociology and Anthropology and worked as a public health research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mothers’ and Children’s Health, La Trobe University. Pranee has a particular interest in issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing and women’s reproductive and sexual health. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. Her books in the health area include: Maternity and reproductive health in Asian societies (with Lenore Manderson, Harwood Academic Press, 1996); Hmong women and reproduction (Bergin & Garvey, 2000); Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, courtship and sexuality (with Lenore Manderson, Curzon Press, 2002); and Health, social change and communities (with Heather Gardner, Oxford University Press, 2003). She has also recently published books titled The journey of becoming a mother amongst women in northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007); and Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood: A cross-cultural perspective and Childrearing and infant care: A cross-cultural perspective (Nova Science, 2007). The most recent book that she published is Community, health and population (with Sansnee Jirojwong, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Infant feeding practices: A cross-cultural perspective (Springer 2010). She is now completing a book on Motherhood and Postnatal Depression: Narratives of Women and their Partners, for Springer (with Carolyn Westall), and will be published in early 2011.

• Preface.- Chapter 1. Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS: An Introduction.- Part I. Women, Reproduction and HIV.- Chapter 2. Growing Confidence? Family-Planning by HIV-Positive Mothers in a South African Urban Setting; Ray Lazarus, Helen Struthers and Avy Violari.- Chapter 3. Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Narratives of Women with HIV Infection from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mónica Gogna, Silvia Fernández, Paula di Corrado and María Julieta Obiols.- Chapter 4. Making Decisions in Pregnancy about HIV Testing and Treatment: The Experience of Burmese Migrant Women in Northern Thailand; Pleumjit Chotiga, Kenda Crozier and Michael Pfeil.- Chapter 5. Motherhood, Infertility, and HIV: The Maasai Context of Norethern Tanzania; Lauren K. Birks, Yadira Roggeveen and Jennifer M. Hatfield.- Chapter 6. I Will Give Birth But Not too Much: HIV-Positive Childbearing in Rural Malawi; Sara Yeatman and Jenny Trinitapoli.- Part II. Motherhood, Infant Feeding and HIV/AIDS.- Chapter 7. ‘I always Wanted to See My Babies Grow up’: Motherhood Experiences for Women Living Longer than Expected with HIV/AIDS; Donna Barnes.- Chapter 8. Do You Tell Your Kids? ... What Do You Tell Your Kids? … When Do You Tell Your Kids? … How Do You Tell Your Kids?:  HIV-Positive Mothers, Disclosure and Dtigma; Karalyn McDonald.- Chapter 9. Dealing with Life: Tactics Employed by Drug–Using Thai Mothers Living with HIV; Niphattra Haritavorn.- Chapter 10. Senegalese Women Living with HIV vs. the 2009 WHO Recommendations for PMTCT: Meanings for Resistance Regarding Infant Feeding; Alice Desclaux.- Chapter 11. Improving Access to Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programs in Africa: An Ongoing Process; Msellati Philippe.- Part III. Women, Mothers and Care.- Chapter 12. Psychological Distress among HIV-Positive Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Thailand; Ratchneewan Ross.- Chapter 13. HIV is My ‘Best’ Problem: Living with Racism, HIV andInterpersonal Violence; Josephine Mazonde and Wilfreda Thurston.- Chapter 14. The Effects of Collective Action on the Confidence of Individual HIV: Positive Mothers in Vietnam; Pauline Oosterhoff and Tran Xuan Bach.- Chapter 15. Women, Motherhood and Living Positively: The Lived Experience of Thai Women; Pranee Liamputtong, Niphattra Haritavorn and Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee.- Chapter 16. Scaling up HIV/AIDS Care among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Cultural Barriers; Damalie Nakanjako, Florence Mirembe, Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya and Alex Coutinho.- Chapter 17. Mothers with HIV: A Case for a Human Rights Approach to HIV/AIDS Care in Northeastern Brazil; Jessica Jerome.- Chapter 18. The MOMS (Making Our Mothers Stronger) Project: A Culturally Tailored Parenting Intervention for Mothers Living with HIV in the Southern U.S.; Susan L. Davies, Herpreet Thind and Jamie Stiller.- Chapter 19. Coping with Patriarchy and HIV/AIDS: Female sexism in infant feeding counseling in southern Africa; Ineke Buskens and Alan Jaffe.

From the book reviews: "This is a book that any scholar interested in HIV and women studies should add to his or her personal library. It presents a state-of-the-art outline of recent studies-mainly through different types of qualitative methods-supplemented with a plethora of appropriate references. ... this book is a comprehensive source to acquire a cross-cultural perspective on HIV and women studies, providing guidance for both health professionals and policy makers." (Ines Aristegui, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 9, 2014)