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 City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda—a 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.
By:
Robert Wyrod
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520286689
ISBN 10: 0520286685
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 05 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Robert Wyrod is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Reviews for AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood
"""AIDS and Masculinity in the African City will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, gender scholars and global/public health practitioners, but the book is also a compelling must-read for people concerned with and interested in urban ethnography, HIV/AIDS, feminist theory and masculinities."" Centre for Medical Humanities"
