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Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS
- Title
- Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh.
- Author
- Parikh, Shanti, 1968-
- Publication
- Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 320 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Sexual ethics for youth > Uganda > Iganga District
- Sexual abstinence
- Teenagers > Sexual behavior > Uganda > Iganga District
- HIV infections > Social aspects > Uganda > Iganga District
- Social change > Uganda > Iganga District
- AIDS (Disease) > Moral and ethical aspects > Uganda > Iganga District
- Soga (African people) > Social life and customs
- Black author
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Going public: the virus, video, evangelicalism, and the anthropology of intervention. -- "Things keep changing" : histories of dispersal and anxiety in Iganga. Demographic shifts, free young women, and idle adolescent men -- Patriarchy, marriage, and gendered respectability -- Publics: interventions into youth sexuality. The social 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 : Sam's death and refusals to submit.
- Call Number
- Sc F 16-37
- ISBN
- 9780826517777
- 0826517773
- 9780826517784
- 0826517781
- 9780826517791 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015003150
- OCLC
- 902599804
- Author
- Parikh, Shanti, 1968- author.
- Title
- Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh.
- Publisher
- Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 16-37