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Author Parikh, Shanti, 1968- author.

Title Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS / Shanti Parikh
Published Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015

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Contents Introduction -- Going public: the virus, video, and evangelicalism. -- "Things keep changing" : histories of dispersal and anxiety in Iganga. Demographic shifts, free young women, and idle adolescent men -- Patriarchy, marriage, and gendered reputations. -- Publics: interventions into youth sexuality. The evolution of HIV : inequalities and biomedical citizenship -- From auntie to disco : risk and pleasure in sexuality education -- "They arrested me for loving a school girl" : controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends. -- Counterpublic : youth romance and love letters. Geographies of courtship and gender in the consumer economy -- "Burn the letter after reading" : secrecy and go-betweens -- "B4 I symbolise my symbolised symbology" : packaging and reading love letters -- "I miss you like a desert missing rain" : desire and longing -- "You're just playing with my head" : disappointment and uncertainty -- Conclusion : the death of Sam
Summary "Shanti Parikh uses evocative stories and the innovative methodology of love letters to trace how Uganda's globally applauded HIV campaigns implemented within a context of persistent inequalities have unintentionally heightened anxiety around youth sexuality, transforming the young female body into a platform for moral debate and driving the world of youthful romance underground"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social change -- Uganda -- Iganga District
Soga (African people) -- Social life and customs
Sexual ethics for youth -- Uganda -- Iganga District
Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Uganda -- Iganga District
AIDS (Disease) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Uganda -- Iganga District
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- Uganda -- Iganga District
HIV infections.
HIV Infections
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
HIV infections
AIDS (Disease) -- Moral and ethical aspects
HIV infections -- Social aspects
Sexual ethics for youth
Social change
Teenagers -- Sexual behavior
Aids
Jugend
Sexualität
Liebe
Sexualpsychologie
SUBJECT Uganda https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014454
Subject Uganda -- Iganga District
Uganda
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826517791
082651779X
0826517773
9780826517777