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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shanti ParikhPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.10cm Weight: 0.709kg ISBN: 9780826517784ISBN 10: 0826517781 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 30 March 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsRegulating 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 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 Shanti Parikh's exceptional new book, Regulating Romance, makes a major contribution to the study of the interconnections between desire and regulation by uncovering the political economy of love among young people in Uganda. The eloquently written book gives us new hope, documenting the diverse ways in which both desire and love are able to survive (and often triumph), even in the midst of a terrible epidemic, a moral battleground of conflicting cultural and religious ideologies, and the devastating effects of stigma, prejudice, and discrimination, as played out in the lived experience of Ugandan youth. --Richard G. Parker, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, editor-in-chief of Global Public Health 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 -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 Author InformationShanti 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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