Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa by Hunter, Mark

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Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

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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...

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.



Author: Mark Hunter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/25/2010
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780253222398

About the Author

Mark Hunter is Assistant Professor in Social Sciences/Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Research Associate in the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.


Tags: Aids (disease) - south africa, Cultural region/southern africa, Developing & emerging countries, Disc:30%, Disease & health issues, Equality - south africa, Gender studies, Indiana university press, Mark hunter, Paperback, Pub201010, Social science, Sociology