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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark HunterPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780253355331ISBN 10: 0253355338 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 25 October 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments A Note on Racial Terms List of Acronyms 1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World 2. Mandeni: ""The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"" Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid 3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home 4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964–94 5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of Intimacy Part 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being ""Left Behind"" in the New South Africa 7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises 8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment 9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and Love Part 3. Interventions 10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDS Glossary Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsBeautifully, powerfully, and movingly written. The best analysis I have seen not only of the reasons for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, but of its wider socioeconomic, cultural, and political dynamics. Shula Marks, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London One of the most exceptional studies of the response to HIV and AIDS. Richard Parker, Columbia University This remarkable, readable book uses ethnography and historical analysis to offer a fresh look at the HIV and AIDS pandemic in South Africa. [Love in the Time of AIDS] is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis... [A]n outstanding monograph from an important new scholar of Southern Africa. - The International Journal of African Historical Studies The ethnography is at its strongest and most insightful when Hunter explores the intricacies of love and gender through detailed ethnography such as the inclusion of love letters and text messages and families' reactions and individuals to death and dying in the context of HIV/AIDS. - American Ethnologist Beautifully, powerfully, and movingly written. The best analysis I have seen not only of the reasons for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, but of its wider socioeconomic, cultural, and political dynamics. Shula Marks, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London One of the most exceptional studies of the response to HIV and AIDS. Richard Parker, Columbia University Beautifully, powerfully, and movingly written. The best analysis I have seen not only of the reasons for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, but of its wider socioeconomic, cultural, and political dynamics. Shula Marks, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London One of the most exceptional studies of the response to HIV and AIDS. Richard Parker, Columbia University This remarkable, readable book uses ethnography and historical analysis to offer a fresh look at the HIV and AIDS pandemic in South Africa. [Love in the Time of AIDS] is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis... [A]n outstanding monograph from an important new scholar of Southern Africa. - The International Journal of African Historical Studies Author InformationMark 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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