Regulating Romance Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parikh, Shanti, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Uganda--Iganga District.

Social change.

Soga (African people)--Social life and customs.

Soga (African people).

Sexual ethics for youth--Uganda--Iganga District.

Sexual ethics for youth.

Teenagers--Sexual behavior--Uganda--Iganga District.

Teenagers.

AIDS (Disease)--Moral and ethical aspects--Uganda--Iganga District.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Social aspects--Uganda--Iganga District.

HIV infections.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations, map, photographs, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Shanti Parikh uses evocative stories and the innovative methodology of love letters to trace how Uganda's globally applauded HIV campaigns implemented within a context of persistent inequalities have unintentionally heightened anxiety around youth sexuality, transforming the young female body into a platform for moral debate and driving the world of youthful romance underground"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Going public: the virus, video, and evangelicalism.

"Things keep changing" : histories of dispersal and anxiety in Iganga. Demographic shifts, free young women, and idle adolescent men

Patriarchy, marriage, and gendered reputations.

Publics: interventions into youth sexuality. The evolution of HIV : inequalities and biomedical citizenship

From auntie to disco : risk and pleasure in sexuality education

"They arrested me for loving a school girl" : controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends.

Counterpublic : youth romance and love letters. Geographies of courtship and gender in the consumer economy

"Burn the letter after reading" : secrecy and go-betweens

"B4 I symbolise my symbolised symbology" : packaging and reading love letters

"I miss you like a desert missing rain" : desire and longing

"You're just playing with my head" : disappointment and uncertainty

Conclusion : the death of Sam.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826503282

0826503284

9780826517791

082651779X

OCLC:

945875187