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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785681303321

Autore

Hunter Mark

Titolo

Love in the time of AIDS [[electronic resource] ] : inequality, gender, and rights in South Africa / / Mark Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97577-3

9786612975776

0-253-00481-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

30670968/090511

Soggetti

Man-woman relationships - South Africa

Equality - South Africa

AIDS (Disease) - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 cre