Love in the Time of AIDS

Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

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Mark Hunter

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

Mark Hunter is Assistant Professor in Social Sciences/Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Research Associate in the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Release date Australia

October 25th, 2010

Author

Mark Hunter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

12 b&w illus., 2 maps

Pages

324

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780253222398

Product ID

7938496

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