麻豆影院 the author: Robert Wyrod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the International Affairs Program at the 麻豆影院.
Book description: AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging.聽AIDS and Masculinity in the African City聽tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda鈥攁 country known as Africa鈥檚 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.
Awards:
American Sociological Association
2017 Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention
2017 Human Rights Section Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Honorable Mention
American Anthropological Association
Society of Medical Anthropology, , Winner 2017
Publication date: July 2016
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