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  • Secret – Love, Marriage, and HIV: Love, Marriage, and HIV

    Secret – Love, Marriage, and HIV by Hirsch, Jennifer S.; Nathanson, Constance A.; Parikh, Shanti;

    Love, Marriage, and HIV

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    Product details:

    • Publisher University of Chicago Press
    • Date of Publication 25 March 2026
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9780826516824
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 254x177 mm
    • Weight 833 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 34 b&w illustrations, index, bibliography
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    Short description:

    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. This title situates marital HIV risk within an exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea.

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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, 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 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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