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

by Mark Hunter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253222397
• ISBN13: 9780253222398
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher