Capital, habitus and symbolic violence in the field of reproductive rights: women and HIV

Critical ethnographic research methods are used in this article to suggest that the concepts of capital, field, habitus and symbolic violence as conceptualised by Bourdieu offer powerful ways to understand the experiences of HIV-positive women dependent on public health-care facilities in Gauteng,...

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Main Authors: Gretchen du Plessis, Frans Bezuidenhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2009-04-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1207