Neoliberal Governance in the HIV and AIDS Epidemic Among Mexican Women in Mexico: the Effects of the Paradigm of Vulnerability

• Main Author: Ana Amuchástegui
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Colegio de México 2017-05-01
• Series: Estudios Sociológicos
• Subjects: Mujeres; VIH; gobernanza neoliberal; vulnerabilidad; feminismo
• Online Access: http://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/1511

The response to the HIV epidemics in Mexico is supported by the neoliberal governance paradigm of vulnerability, in such a way that a government organization of suffering distributes resources among “key populations”. This article discusses the way in which this strategy, oriented by the moral regulation of sexuality, works simultaneously as raison d’etre and straitjacket for feminist and women with HIV organizations, making difficult alliances between them. This discussion is carried out through an analysis of ethnographic material and an intervention-research with and for women affected by HIV. Their biographies show multiple forms of resistance, suggesting the necessity of questioning their self-representation as impotent subjects, and of problematizing, as a task of feminism, the dichotomy vulnerability-resistance.