Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi

Anika Wilson is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She received her PhD in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work on informal narratives, gender conflict, and health beliefs has been presented at numerous conferences and published in Western Folklore.

"Anika Wilson has assembled an impressive presentation of the power of informal discourse, often fed by media, in a time of catastrophic threat to women. Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi is an important contribution to the literature of women's studies, as well as a valuable cautionary reminder to healthcare activists, that women's voices in time of crisis deeply matter-they are trivialized at great risk." (Erika Brady, Western Folklore, Vol. 74.3 (4), Summer-Fall, 2015)

• 1. Introduction 2. Advice is Good Medicine 3. Funny, Yet Sorrowful 4. 'Nobody Fears AIDS, Mphutsi is More Fire' 5. Mgoneko