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Contradicting Maternity: HIV-positive motherhood in South Africa Women's Friendship Fiction senior officers gathered at theDrawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mothers point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful