Love in the Time of AIDS Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

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 tex...

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Main Author: Hunter, Mark D.
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2010
Edition:1
Subjects:
AIDS
AIDS & HIV
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) > South Africa
Basic rights
Diseases
Equality
Equality > South Africa
Femininity
Gender
Gender Studies
HEALTH & FITNESS
Human geography
Inequality
Interpersonal relations
Intimacy
Love
Male-female relationships
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships - South Africa
Masculinity
Postcolonialism
Public Health
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
South Africa
Unemployment
ISBN:0253355338, 9780253355331, 9780253222398, 0253222397
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON RACIAL TERMS List of Acronyms ONE: Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World TWO: Mandeni: THREE: Providing Love: FOUR: Urban Respectability: FIVE: Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: SIX: Postcolonial Geographies: SEVEN: Independent Women: EIGHT: Failing Men: NINE: All You Need Is Love? TEN: The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDS GLOSSARY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Back Matter
  • Cover 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 Part 2 Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being “Left Behind” in the New South Africa 7. 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
  • 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- -- 6 Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa -- 7 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