AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood

by Robert Wyrod

Overview

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 City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda—a 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520286689
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Wyrod is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

1. Remaking Masculinity in Bwaise
2. The Making of Masculinity in Urban Uganda
3. Providing in Poverty
4. Women’s Rights in the Remaking of Masculinity
5. The Intersection of Masculinity, Sexuality, and AIDS
6. Beyond Bwaise

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"AIDS and Masculinity in the African City brilliantly reveals the complexities of how men understand and construct their masculinity in urban Uganda. Robert Wyrod’s ethnography focuses on Bwaise, an impoverished district within the capital city of Kampala. Through the experiences of men and women in Bwaise, he brings attention to the various ways that masculinity intersects with broader social transformations brought on by the HIV epidemic, urbanization, neoliberal economic transformations, and women’s movements. The result is an ethnography that challenges the social imaginary that has demonized African men’s sexuality in relation to HIV/AIDS."

City & Society

"AIDS and Masculinity in the African City will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, gender scholars and global/public health practitioners, but the book is also a compelling must-read for people concerned with and interested in urban ethnography, HIV/AIDS, feminist theory and masculinities."

Centre for Medical Humanities