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Robert Wyrod AIDS and Masculinity in the African City

Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood

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University of California Press

2016

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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.AIDS and Masculinity in the African Citytackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Ugandaa country known as Africa's 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.

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