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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-13
9780253355331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95836033
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love in the Time of Aids: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
Author
Mark Hunter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Economics, Zoology, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
324 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
612g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mark Hunter
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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