AIDS and Masculinity in the African City

AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Author: Robert Wyrod
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520286685

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"AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda, a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on extensive ethnographic research in an urban slum community called Bwaise, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for men's and women's health and wellbeing in Uganda and beyond"--Provided by publisher.


AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert Wyrod
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-05 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert Wyrod
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-05 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines
Love in the Time of AIDS
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Mark Hunter
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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Gender and AIDS in an unequal world -- Mandeni: "the AIDS capital of Kwazulu-Natal"--Providing love : male migration and building a rural home -- Urban respecta
The Link between Masculinity, Alcohol and HIV/Aids in Malawi
Language: en
Pages: 94
Authors: Aid Norwegian
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: African Books Collective

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It is common knowledge that HIV is widespread in Malawi as it is in many other countries of Southern Africa. It is also a well-known fact that women suffer most
African Masculinities
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: L. Ouzgane
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-15 - Publisher: Springer

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While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for