Epele María Esther
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2002 Mar;26(1):33-54. doi: 10.1023/a:1015237130328.
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.
在本文中，我提出性别不平等会直接或间接地导致注射吸毒（IDU）女性在旧金山教会区遭受多维暴力（结构、象征和身体层面），从而使她们更易感染艾滋病毒。鉴于街头意识形态规定的女性从属地位，我分析了不稳定的生存策略所带来的药物依赖如何使注射吸毒女性面临多种危险和威胁。在这种情况下，不平等的性别关系是街头经济复杂交易系统的一部分，也是减少或增加日常暴力的一种方式。面对多种危险和风险，一些女性采取从属地位，一些试图协商交换条件，另一些则抵制剥削。最后，性别不平等和资源匮乏状况下的日常暴力强加了一种由在直接危险威胁下的生存挑战所定义的逻辑，这将艾滋病毒转化为次要风险。
