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Author Hunter, Mark.

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

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 have become entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex and have created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This sobering ethnography challenges conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Man-woman relationships -- South Africa.
Man-woman relationships.
South Africa.
Equality -- South Africa.
Equality.
AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa.
AIDS (Disease)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Drama.
Drama.
Other Form: Print version: Hunter, Mark. Love in the time of AIDS. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253355331 (DLC) 2010011262 (OCoLC)491950783
ISBN 9780253004819 electronic book
0253004810 electronic book
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