{"product_id":"the-secret-love-marriage-and-hiv-9780826516831","title":"The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hirsch, Jennifer S.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780826516831.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2010\n\nFor 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, mens 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 cant stop them.\n\nDrawing on research conducted as part of an innovative comparative ethnographic study, and modeling a novel approach to collaborative anthropological scholarship, the authors show mens 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 mens participation in extramarital sex. Also documented throughout is the collision between traditional ways and the new practices of romantic companionate marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255507050549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826516831","price":24.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826516831_b80ef2f3-e3bb-4a08-865c-d5a8b4f2cdd1.jpg?v=1779930625","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-love-marriage-and-hiv-9780826516831","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}