Targeting Men for a Change: AIDS Discourse and Activism in Africa

Campaigns against the spread of AIDS in Africa have recently begun to target men. This raises challenging questions not only about forms of intervention, but also about theoretical perspectives which have abandoned essentialist views of men and masculinity and shifted to a perception of masculinities as plural and contingent. In addressing these concerns, JANET BUJRA re-interrogates field data from a recent study in Tanzania and reviews AIDS initiatives in Africa which target men