Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS

Author:   Shanti Parikh
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN:  

9780826517777


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS


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Author:   Shanti Parikh
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   0.873kg
ISBN:  

9780826517777


ISBN 10:   0826517773
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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-Regulating Romance offers an incisive analysis of love, sex, and intimate relations in the context of economic uncertainty, competing moral structures, and the HIV epidemic in Uganda. Parikh vividly demonstrates the cruel optimism experienced by young people who are drawn to ideals of consumer romance that they can rarely, if ever, achieve. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, capitalism, and youth.---Jennifer Cole, author of Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar


Regulating Romance is a remarkable exploration of the tension between attempts to control young people and their own efforts to work out their romantic and sexual lives. Shanti Parikh's extraordinary collection of love letters and her careful analysis of what they are really about constitute an original insight into the life concerns of Ugandan youth. The wonderful illustrations are a bonus. --Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen, editor of Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda


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Shanti Parikh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA is coauthor of The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV (also published by Vanderbilt).

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