The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV
ISBN-13:
9780826516831
ISBN-10:
0826516831
Author:
Jennifer S Hirsch, Daniel Jordan Smith, Holly Wardlow, Harriet M. Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press
Format:
Paperback
320 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780826516831
ISBN-10:
0826516831
Author:
Jennifer S Hirsch, Daniel Jordan Smith, Holly Wardlow, Harriet M. Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press
Format:
Paperback
320 pages
Summary
The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV (ISBN-13: 9780826516831 and ISBN-10: 0826516831), written by authors
Jennifer S Hirsch, Daniel Jordan Smith, Holly Wardlow, Harriet M. Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson, was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2010.
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For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. The Secret situates marital HIV risk within a broader exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea. In these settings, the authors write, men's extramarital sex is an officially secret but actually widespread (and widely acknowledged) social practice, rather than something men do because their bodies demand it and women can't stop them.
Drawing on research conducted as part of an innovative comparative ethnographic study, and modeling a novel approach to collaborative anthropological scholarship, the authors show men's extramarital sex to be a fundamental aspect of gendered social organization. Through theoretically sophisticated yet lucid writing and vivid ethnographic description, drawing on rich data from the marital case studies conducted by research teams in each country, they trace how extramarital opportunity structures, sexual geographies, and concerns about social risk facilitate men's participation in extramarital sex. Also documented throughout is the collision between traditional ways and the new practices of romantic companionate marriage.
For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. The Secret situates marital HIV risk within a broader exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea. In these settings, the authors write, men's extramarital sex is an officially secret but actually widespread (and widely acknowledged) social practice, rather than something men do because their bodies demand it and women can't stop them.
Drawing on research conducted as part of an innovative comparative ethnographic study, and modeling a novel approach to collaborative anthropological scholarship, the authors show men's extramarital sex to be a fundamental aspect of gendered social organization. Through theoretically sophisticated yet lucid writing and vivid ethnographic description, drawing on rich data from the marital case studies conducted by research teams in each country, they trace how extramarital opportunity structures, sexual geographies, and concerns about social risk facilitate men's participation in extramarital sex. Also documented throughout is the collision between traditional ways and the new practices of romantic companionate marriage.
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