This book considers gender dimensions of a number of issues central to human security and development in Africa, including food security, AIDS, legal rights, violence, conflict resolution, informal work, the environment, and poverty alleviation.

The gender focus of this volume points to the importance of power relationships and policy variability underlying human insecurities in the African context. The insights of this book offer the potential for an improved human security framework, one that embraces a more complex and context-specific analysis of the issues of risk and vulnerability, therefore expanding its capacity to safeguard the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.

Introduction 1. The Gender Context of Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: The Case of Men and Women in Low Socioeconomic Areas of the City of Lilongwe in Malawi Ezekiel Kalipeni and Jayati Ghosh 2. Treating AIDS in Uganda and South Africa: Semi-Authoritarian Technologies in Gendered Contexts of Insecurity Lisa Ann Richey 3. Whose Human Security? Gender, Neoliberalism and The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa Zo Randriamaro 4. African Poverty, Gender and Insecurity John Weeks and Howard Stein 5. Food Crises: The Impact on African Women and Children Meredeth Turshen 6. Gender, Environment and Human Security in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana Jacob Songsore 7. Negotiating Security: Gender, Violence, and the Rule of Law in Post-War South Sudan Jok Madut Jok 8. Gender, Agency, and Peace Negotiations in Africa Aili Mari Tripp

Howard Stein is Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and also teaches in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. His research has focused on foreign aid, finance and development, structural adjustment, health and development, industrial policy and rural property rights transformation.

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her teaching addresses global perspectives on gender, health, and reproduction, and gender, diaspora and transnationalism.