ISBN:
9780253355331
,
9780253222398
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 303 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hunter, Mark, 1971 - Love in the time of AIDS
DDC:
30670968/090511
Keywords:
Equality
;
AIDS (Disease)
;
Man-woman relationships
;
Man-woman relationships - South Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Südafrika
;
HIV-Infektion
;
AIDS
;
Liebe
;
Zweierbeziehung
;
Gleichheit
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Südafrika
;
Aids
;
Geschlechterverhältnis
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Ungleichheit
Abstract:
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 phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment hav
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; A Note on Racial Terms; List of Acronyms; 1 Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World; 2 Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"; PART 1 REVISITING INTIMACY AND APARTHEID; 3 Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home; 4 Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964-94; 5 Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of Intimacy; PART 2 INTIMACY AFTER DEMOCRACY, 1994-
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa7 Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises; 8 Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment; 9 All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and Love; PART 3 INTERVENTIONS; 10 The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDS; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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