Love in the Time of AIDS

Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, AIDs & HIV, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
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Author: Mark Hunter ISBN: 9780253004819
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: October 25, 2010
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Mark Hunter
ISBN: 9780253004819
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: October 25, 2010
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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