Profile

Biography

Anne Akeroyd is a social anthropologist. Formerly a lecturer in the Department, she is now an Honorary Fellow. She is also an associate member of the Centre for Women’s Studies; and was also a member of the (former) Centre for Southern African Studies.

She is unable to supervise PhD students

Research

Overview

Anne's research interests are now mainly concerned with socio-cultural aspects of the body and of health and illness, in particular women's health; gendered aspects of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa, and related issues of gendered violence and of women’s rights; and comparative perspectives on gender, especially in East Asia and Southern Africa.

Publications

Selected publications

• 'Coercion, constraints, and "cultural entrapments": A further look at gendered and occupational factors pertinent to the transmission of HIV in Africa'. In Kalipeni, E., Craddock, S., Oppong, J. and Ghosh, J. (eds.) HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology, London; New York: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 89-103, (2004).
• 'Sociocultural aspects of AIDS in Africa: occupational and gender issues' in Bond, G.C., et al. (eds) AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, pp. 11-30, Westview Press (1997).
• Some Gendered and Occupational Aspects of HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa: Changes, Continuities and Issues for further Consideration at the End of the First Decade , Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies [Occasional Paper No.60], pp. 90 (1996).
• 'Gender, race and ethnicity in official statistics: social categories and the HIV/AIDS "numbers" game', in Afshar, H. & Maynard, M. (eds.) The Dynamics of Race and Gender: Some Feminist Interventions, London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 63-81, (1994)
• ‘Gender, food production and property rights: constraints on women farmers in southern Africa’, in H. Afshar (ed.) Women, Development and Survival in the Third World (Longman 1994)