This sobering ethnography challenges conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Racial Terms
List of Acronyms
1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World
2. Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"
Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid
3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home
4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964-94
5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of Intimacy
Part 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994-
6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa
7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises
8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment
9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and Love
Part 3. Interventions
10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDS
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Mark Hunter is Assistant Professor in Social Sciences/Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Research Associate in the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.