Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh.
- Parikh, Shanti, 1968-
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
Description
"Shanti Parikh uses evocative stories and the innovative methodology of love letters to trace how Uganda's globally applauded HIV campaigns implemented within a context of persistent inequalities have unintentionally heightened anxiety around youth sexuality, transforming the young female body into a platform for moral debate and driving the world of youthful romance underground"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.
Physical description
xv, 320 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
Contributors
Contents
Introduction -- Going public: the virus, video, and evangelicalism. -- "Things keep changing" : histories of dispersal and anxiety in Iganga. Demographic shifts, free young women, and idle adolescent men -- Patriarchy, marriage, and gendered reputations. -- Publics: interventions into youth sexuality. The evolution of HIV : inequalities and biomedical citizenship -- From auntie to disco : risk and pleasure in sexuality education -- "They arrested me for loving a school girl" : controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends. -- Counterpublic : youth romance and love letters. Geographies of courtship and gender in the consumer economy -- "Burn the letter after reading" : secrecy and go-betweens -- "B4 I symbolise my symbolised symbology" : packaging and reading love letters -- "I miss you like a desert missing rain" : desire and longing -- "You're just playing with my head" : disappointment and uncertainty -- Conclusion : the death of Sam.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- HIV infectionsSocial aspectsUgandaIganga District.
- AIDS (Disease)Moral and ethical aspectsUgandaIganga District.
- TeenagersSexual behaviorUgandaIganga District.
- Sexual ethics for youthUgandaIganga District.
- Soga (African people)Social life and customs
- Social changeUgandaIganga District.
- HIV Infectionspsychology
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromepsychology
- Sexual Behaviorpsychology
- Adolescent
- Morals
- Social Change
- Uganda
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFEJ.U.176Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780826517777 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
- 0826517773 (cloth edition : alk. paper)