AIDS and Masculinity in the African City (eBook)

Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood

Robert Wyrod (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96178-4 (ISBN)

Infos

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging.AIDS and Masculinity in the African Citytackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Ugandaa country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on a decade of ethnographic research in an urban slum community in the capital Kampala, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for combating AIDS across the African continent.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables

1. Remaking Masculinity in Bwaise
2. The Making of Masculinity in Urban Uganda
3. Providing in Poverty
4. Women’s Rights in the Remaking of Masculinity
5. The Intersection of Masculinity, Sexuality, and AIDS
6. Beyond Bwaise

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: african manhood • aids africa • aids and poverty • Aids Epidemic • aids in african slums • aids in ugandan slums • aids uganda • bwaise • HIV activism • hiv activism africa • hiv activism uganda • HIV AIDS • HIV positive • Kampala • male privilege • masculine privilege • masculine privilege africa • masculinity africa • masculinity and sexuality • masculinity uganda • Patriarchy • Public Health • public health africa • Urban Africa • urban uganda
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96178-1 / 0520961781
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96178-4 / 9780520961784