Love

Love in the Time of AIDS

By - Hunter, Mark
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2010
ISBN 10 - 0253222397
ISBN 13 - 9780253222398
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - South Africa
Shelf No - 14
Call Number - 306.7096 HUN
Physical Description - xii, 303 pages
Book Information
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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