AIDS and Masculinity in the African City : Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood / Robert Wyrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyrod, Robert, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Uganda.

Masculinity.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Uganda.

AIDS (Disease).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda-a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on a decade of ethnographic research in an urban slum community in the capital Kampala, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for combating AIDS across the African continent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

1. Remaking Masculinity in Bwaise

2. The Making of Masculinity in Urban Uganda

3. Providing in Poverty

4. Women's Rights in the Remaking of Masculinity

5. The Intersection of Masculinity, Sexuality, and AIDS

6. Beyond Bwaise

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961784

0520961781

OCLC:

931861043