If books fail, try beauty: educated womanhood in the new East Africa
"The first book-length ethnography of African university students - chronicles the lives of young women at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in the context of rising HIV rates, market-based education reform, and the East African Community's regional integration (est. 2010). Makerere...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The first book-length ethnography of African university students - chronicles the lives of young women at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in the context of rising HIV rates, market-based education reform, and the East African Community's regional integration (est. 2010). Makerere University (locally termed the "Harvard of Africa") is well known for its production of elite subjects, and thus serves as an exemplary site for questions of transnational class formation. This book examines Kampala's university-based sexual economy wherein young women exchange sexual favors for money, grades, and luxury commodities. These practices put students at increased risk for infectious disease, pregnancy, and moral rebuke, yet many university women engaged in "transactional" sex are members of East Africa's nascent middle class and successful students at the region's most prestigious university. Why do educated, financially stable young women engage in sexual transactions that incur biomedical and social risk? If Books Fail argues that participation in Makerere's sexual economy is a central means by which female students pursue social advancement in a landscape of shifting opportunity structures. This strategy has profound consequences for kinship, marriage, and social relations, gendered labor practices, and HIV transmission patterns. These findings have serious implications for higher education sectors across the continent"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xxvi, 205 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780190852146 0190852143 |
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| spelling | Schwartz Bocast, Brooke Verfasser aut If books fail, try beauty educated womanhood in the new East Africa Brooke Schwartz Bocast New York Oxford University Press 2023 xxvi, 205 Seiten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Issues of globalization Part I : Orientations -- 1. Introduction : Did you go to school for this? -- 2. From "Town Women" to "Campus Girls" -- Part II : Embodiments -- 3. The three boyfriends -- 4. Declarations of promiscuity -- 5. Being known and becoming famous -- Part III : Departures -- 6. Towards a "Bright Future" -- 7. Conclusion : Books, beauty, and educated womanhood -- Epilogue : #PeoplePowerOurPower "The first book-length ethnography of African university students - chronicles the lives of young women at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in the context of rising HIV rates, market-based education reform, and the East African Community's regional integration (est. 2010). Makerere University (locally termed the "Harvard of Africa") is well known for its production of elite subjects, and thus serves as an exemplary site for questions of transnational class formation. This book examines Kampala's university-based sexual economy wherein young women exchange sexual favors for money, grades, and luxury commodities. These practices put students at increased risk for infectious disease, pregnancy, and moral rebuke, yet many university women engaged in "transactional" sex are members of East Africa's nascent middle class and successful students at the region's most prestigious university. Why do educated, financially stable young women engage in sexual transactions that incur biomedical and social risk? If Books Fail argues that participation in Makerere's sexual economy is a central means by which female students pursue social advancement in a landscape of shifting opportunity structures. This strategy has profound consequences for kinship, marriage, and social relations, gendered labor practices, and HIV transmission patterns. These findings have serious implications for higher education sectors across the continent"-- |
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