Providing Women, Kept Men: Doing Masculinity in the Wake of the African HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Abstract This article draws on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork to explore accounts of intimate relationships between widowed women and poor young men that emerged in the wake of economic crisis and a devastating HIV epidemic among the Luo ethnic group in western Kenya. I show how the co-o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Signs. - University of Chicago Press, 1975. - 39(2014), 2, Seite 341-363
1. Verfasser: Mojola, Sanyu A. (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Signs
Schlagworte:Social sciences Behavioral sciences Health sciences Biological sciences
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