@article{ref1,
title="Gender, violence and HIV: women's survival in the streets",
journal="Culture, medicine, and psychiatry",
year="2002",
author="Epele, ME",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="33-54",
abstract="In this article I propose that gender inequality promotes--directly or indirectly--vulnerability to HIV as a consequence of a multidimensional violence (structural, symbolic and physical) experienced by injection drug using (IDU) women in The Mission District (San Francisco). Given the female subordinated position stipulated by the street ideology, I analyze how drug dependence afforded by precarious strategies of subsistence places IDU women under multiple dangers and threats. In this setting, unequal gender relations are part of a complex system of transactions in the street economy and a way to reduce or increase the everyday violence. Facing multiple dangers and risks, some women adopt a subordinated position, some try to negotiate the conditions of the exchanges and the others resist the exploitation. Finally, everyday violence under conditions of gender inequality and scarcity of resources imposes a logic defined by the challenge of survival under the threat of immediate dangers, which transform HIV into a secondary risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-005X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}