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Author Esacove, Anne W., author

Title Modernizing sexuality : U.S. HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa / Anne W. Esacove
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Sexuality, identity, and society
Sexuality, identity, and society series
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
Summary 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 women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Prevention
Safe sex in AIDS prevention -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Sexual health -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Sex instruction -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Sex -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Economic assistance, American -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Medical policy.
Sex instruction.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Health Planning Support -- economics
Health Policy
Sex Education
Sexuality
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medical policy
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
Economic assistance, American
Safe sex in AIDS prevention
Sex
Sex instruction
Sexual health
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190610814
0190610816
9780190610821
0190610824