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Author: Shane Doyle (Senior Lecturer in African History, University of Leeds)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.80cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.868kg
ISBN: 9780197265338
ISBN 10: 0197265332
Pages: 450
Publication Date: 07 February 2013
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Doyle's analysis draws upon a vast and diverse array of sources including over 250 key informant interviews and focus groups, popular media, censuses, parish records, and unpublished correspondence of ethnographers. --American Historical Review
Doyle shows that it is only by analysing the history of changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes that the shape of Africa's regional HIV/AIDS epidemics can be fully understood. Doyle's book is an impressive attempt to tell a detailed story of changing sexual culture Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, The Lancet Without question Before HIV is an extremely erudite book full of rich empirical detail woven together with care to construct original and generally convincing challenges to some of the prevailing wisdom on demographic change and the differential epidemiology of HIV. Marc Epprecht, American Historical Review a wealth of testimony, gathered through years of painstaking archival and oral historical scholarship ... The result is a rich exploration of sexuality in three twentieth-century societies in the Lake Victoria region ... This is a hugely complex and detailed work. Sarah Walters, Population Studies: A Journal of Demography
Doyle shows that it is only by analysing the history of changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes that the shape of Africa's regional HIV/AIDS epidemics can be fully understood. Doyle's book is an impressive attempt to tell a detailed story of changing sexual culture * Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, The Lancet * Without question Before HIV is an extremely erudite book full of rich empirical detail woven together with care to construct original and generally convincing challenges to some of the prevailing wisdom on demographic change and the differential epidemiology of HIV. * Marc Epprecht, American Historical Review * a wealth of testimony, gathered through years of painstaking archival and oral historical scholarship ... The result is a rich exploration of sexuality in three twentieth-century societies in the Lake Victoria region ... This is a hugely complex and detailed work. * Sarah Walters, Population Studies: A Journal of Demography * a well-researched, solidly documented study ... Highly recommended. * B.M. du Toit, CHOICE *
Author Information
Shane Doyle was educated at Cambridge and SOAS. Currently Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Leeds, he was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and before that Assistant Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His current research on the history of sexuality and demographic change in East Africa has been funded by the AHRC, British Academy and the ESRC.
