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Title: | Rethinking masculinities, violence and aids |
Editors: | Gibson, Diana Hardon, Anita |
Year: | 2005 |
Volume: | 1 |
Pages: | 202 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Series AIDS, society & culture |
City of publisher: | Amsterdam |
Publisher: | Het Spinhuis |
ISBN: | 9055892572 |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Namibia South Africa |
Subjects: | men sexuality masculinity violence AIDS |
Abstract: | The nine chapters in this collective volume present ethnographic research conducted in settings ranging from Mexico to Tajikistan (one chapter each), Kenya, Namibia and South Africa in order to highlight the specificity of, and the intersection between masculinity, violence, unsafe sex and HIV/AIDS. The chapters examine the role of power and violence in the construction and practices of masculinity in various sociocultural settings and across age groups and class differences, and explore men as gendered beings in interpersonal and sexual relations. Contributors: Heike Becker, Ann Dinan, Diana Gibson, Glenda Gray, Anita Hardon, Colette Harris, Ann-Karina Henriksen, George McCall, James McIntyre, Sakhumzi Mfecane, Kopano Ratele, Fenneke Reysoo, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Heidi Sauls, Nokuthula Shabalala, Tamara Shefer, Rachel Spronk, Anna Strebel, and Helen Struthers. [ASC Leiden abstract] |