Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS - Couverture souple

Parikh, Shanti

 
9780826517784: Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS
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ISBN 10 : 0826517781 ISBN 13 : 9780826517784
Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people's heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda. In chapters entitled "Unbreak my heart," "I miss you like a desert missing rain," and "You're just playing with my head," she invites readers into the world of secret longings, disappointments, and anxieties of young Ugandans as they grapple with everyday difficulties while creatively imagining romantic futures and possibilities.

Parikh also examines the unintended consequences of Uganda's aggressive HIV campaigns that thrust sexuality and anxieties about it into the public sphere. In a context of economic precarity and generational tension that constantly complicates young people's notions of consumption-based romance, communities experience the dilemmas of protecting and policing young people from reputational and health dangers of sexual activity. "They arrested me for loving a school girl" is the title of a chapter on controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends for attempting to undermine patriarchal authority by asserting their adolescent romantic agency. Sex education programs struggle between risk and pleasure amidst morally charged debates among international donors and community elders, transforming the youthful female body into a platform for public critique and concern. The many sides of this research constitute an eloquently executed critical anthropology of intervention.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shanti Parikh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is coauthor of The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV (also published by Vanderbilt).

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Éditeur
Vanderbilt University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826517781
ISBN 13 
9780826517784
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780826517777: Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS

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ISBN 10 :  0826517773 ISBN 13 :  9780826517777
Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2016
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