- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (pages 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.
- Uniform Title
- Regulating Romance (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Regulating Romance (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0001649297
- Author
Parikh, Shanti, 1968-
- Title
Regulating Romance [electronic resource] : Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh.
- Imprint
Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Added Author
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2015003150