"Love, Money, and HIV": Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS
Sanyu A. Mojola
Abstract
Drawing on a rich variety of interviews and ethnographic and survey data from her native country of Kenya, Sanyu Mojola examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their relationships, schooling, employment, and financial access in the context of a devastating HIV epidemic, economic inequality, and a changing ecological environment. Writing from a unique outsider-insider perspective, Mojola argues that the entanglement of love, money, and the production and transformation of girls into “consuming women” lies at th ... More
Keywords: gender, health, HIV/AIDS, consumption, Nyanza province, Kenya, Africa, sexuality, youth, transition to adulthood
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520280939 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520280939.001.0001 |
