Love in the time of AIDS : inequality, gender, and rights in South Africa

Love in the time of AIDS : inequality, gender, and rights in South Africa / Mark Hunter.

"In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell pho...

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Main Author: Hunter, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > South Africa.
Equality > South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) > South Africa.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
AIDS (Disease)
Equality
Man-woman relationships
South Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Gender and AIDS in an unequal world
  • Mandeni: "the AIDS capital of Kwazulu-Natal"
  • Providing love : male migration and building a rural home
  • Urban respectability : Sundumbili Township, 1964-94
  • Shacks in the cracks of apartheid : industrial women and the changing political economy and geography of intimacy
  • Postcolonial geographies : being "left behind" in the new South Africa
  • Independent women : rights amid wrongs, and men's broken promises
  • Failing men : modern masculinities amid unemployment
  • All you need is love? : the materiality of everyday sex and love
  • The politics of gender, intimacy, and AIDS.

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