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AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood. Robert Wyrod, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016, 312 ...

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AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood. Robert Wyrod, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016, 312 ...

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1548-744X
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City & Society Book Review AIDS and Masculinity in the African wage labor in urban areas spurred rural City: Privilege, Inequality, and to urban migration of men hoping to Modern Manhood. Robert Wyrod, save money to purchase land in the Berkeley: University of California Press, countryside, marry, and start a family. 2016, 312 pp. Thus, the economic opportunities tied to urbanization became central in defining Carina Heckert modern manhood. However, as in other The University of Texas at El Paso parts of urban Africa, the neoliberal global economy has made it increasingly AIDS and Masculinity in the African City difficult for poor and working class men brilliantly reveals the complexities of to provide for a family. The lack of how men understand and construct their viable employment options has masculinity in urban Uganda. Robert generated a crisis in masculinity that has Wyrod’s ethnography focuses on implications for how men engage in Bwaise, an impoverished district within sexual relationships. When men are the capital city of Kampala. Through the unable to exert male authority through experiences of men and women in achievement as economic providers, Bwaise, he brings attention to the they are seen by others, and to some various

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