If books fail, try beauty : educated womanhood in the new East Africa /

If books fail, try beauty : educated womanhood in the new East Africa /

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Author / Creator:	Bocast, Brooke Schwartz, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] ©2024
Description:	xxvi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Issues of globalization Issues of globalization.
Subject:	Makerere University Makerere University Women -- Education (Higher) -- Uganda. Women -- Education (Higher) -- Africa, East. Women college students -- Sexual behavior -- Uganda. Women college students -- Sexual behavior -- Africa, East. Student prostitution -- Uganda. Student prostitution -- Africa, East. Women college students -- Sexual behavior Women -- Education (Higher) Africa, East
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13570106

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ISBN:	0190852143 9780190852146
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.
Summary:	"If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa examines Kampala's university-based sexual economy wherein female students exchange sexual favors for money, grades, and luxury commodities. These practices increase young women's risk for infectious disease, pregnancy, and moral rebuke, yet many women engaged in "transactional" sex are adept students at Makerere University and members of East Africa's nascent middle class. Based on thirty-six months of ethnographic research, If Books Fail reveals that students participate in Makerere's sexual economy to pursue social advancement in a newly privatized education sector." --

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Call Number:	LC2474.3.B63 2024
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