AIDS and Masculinity in the African City - Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28668-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wyrod, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Wyrod is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.