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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--South Africa.

Man-woman relationships.

Equality--South Africa.

Equality.

AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 cre

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612975776

9781282975774

1282975773

9780253004819

0253004810

OCLC:

680017828