Modernizing sexuality : U.S. HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa /

Stepping outside the established boundaries of HIV scholarship, 'Modernizing Sexuality' illustrates the ways in which Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity come together in U.S. prevention policy, and how they actually exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Esacove, Anne W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Series:Sexuality, identity, and society series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing the story of AIDS: an introduction to narrative, "African" AIDS and the U.S. prevention response
  • Embodied risk: gender, modernity, & tradition
  • Love matches: the policy prescription for "good" sex
  • The sweetest sex possible ... under the circumstances: the everyday prescription for "good" sex
  • Prevention strategies: individualized & bureaucratic practices for creating modern actors
  • Renarrating good sex: redirecting prevention.