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Writing


 

Robert has written on a range of topics including human rights in Africa, masculinity in urban Uganda, globalization in Indonesia, and the martial arts in Chicago's African-American communities.

 

Robert's book manuscript in preparation, Masculinity Reinscribed: Gender, Social Change, and Everyday Life in Urban Uganda, is based on his ethnographic research in the Bwaise community in Uganda.

  

 

Jakarta Indonesia/Robert Wyrod

Publications


 

Wyrod, Robert. 2011. "Masculinity and the Persistence of AIDS Stigma." Culture, Health & Sexuality Vol. 13: 443-456. PDF

 

Fritz, Katherine, Willi McFarland, Robert Wyrod et al. 2011. "Evaluation of a Peer-Network Based Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for Men in Beer Halls in Zimbabwe: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial." AIDS and Behavior. PDF 

 

Wyrod, Robert et al. 2011. "Beyond Sugar Daddies: Intergenerational Sex and AIDS in Urban Zimbabwe." AIDS and Behavior Vol. 15: 1275-1282. PDF 

 

Wyrod, Robert. 2008. "Between Women’s Rights and Men’s Authority: Masculinity and Shifting Discourses of Gender Difference in Urban Uganda." Gender & Society Vol. 22: 799-823. PDF

 

Wyrod, Robert. 2008. Review of Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development by Kristian E. Cheney. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 114: 868-70. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2007. "Bwaise Town: Masculinity in Urban Uganda in the Age of AIDS." PhD Dissertation. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.

 

Wyrod, Robert. 2006. "The Men of Bwaise" in Adam Jones, ed., Men of the Global South: A Reader, pp. 21-28. London: Zed Books. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2003. "World on Fire: Does Globalization Inflame Ethnic Hatred?" Jakarta Post, 15 June. PDF or Web version 


Wyrod, Robert. 2000. "Warriors of the South Side: Race and the Body in the Martial Arts of Black Chicago." Berkeley Journal of Sociology Vol. 44: 126-150 . PDF 

 

 

Manuscripts Under Review and in Preparation

 

Wyrod, Robert. Masculinity Reinscribed: Gender, Social Change, and Everyday Life in Urban Uganda. Book manuscript in preparation.

 

Wyrod, Robert. "Gender and AIDS Stigma." Book chapter under review.

 

Wyrod, Robert. "Dialectics of Gender and Health: The Case of HIV Serodiscordance." Article under review.

 

Wyrod, Robert. "The Limits of Work in the Production of Masculinity: A View from Urban Africa." Article in preparation.