Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hunter, Mark.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

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Description

xii, 303 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• ""Beautifully, powerfully, and movingly written. The best analysis I have seen not only of the reasons for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, but of its wider socioeconomic cultural, and political dynamics."--Shula Marks. School of Orientaland african studies, University of London.
• "One of the most exceptional studies of the response to HIV and AIDS."--Richard Parker. Columbia University.
• 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 created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This sobering ethnography challenges conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Man-woman relationships > South Africa
• Equality > South Africa
• AIDS (Disease) > South Africa
• Civil Rights
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780253355331 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253355338 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253222398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253222397 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010011262

OCLC

491950783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library