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Over 40 per cent of all children in South Africa are born to unmarried people. In South Africa, illegitimacy is still a contentious issue, and both social and policy recognition of change lags far behind reality. This book examines why so many South African children are born outside marriage and the problems associated with rearing children in the absence of two parents. It also discusses the attitudes of the major religious communities to births outside religiously sanctioned unions and the effects of migrancy and apartheid on the possibilities of marriages for black South Africans, and the consequences for their children. The authors recommend changes in the legal provisions governing non-marital children, and suggest policy changes directed at the provision of welfare facilities for unmarried parents and their minor children. (DÜI-Hff)

South Africa's informal economy is the subject of much controversy. Some observers feel it holds considerable developmental promise as an untapped resource of entrepreneurship which offers a solution to South Africa's pressing economic problems. Others view it in a negative light and see it primarily as ripe ground for labour exploitation. The authors of this book explore a variety of both urban and rural informal money-making ventures, from the activities of hawkers, small-scale industrialists, black taxi operators, and shebeen and spaza store owners, to the herbal medicine and palm wine trades, rural and worker co-operatives and rotating credit schemes. They then go on to assess the magnitude of the informal sector and its propensity to be 'formalized', suggest directions for future research, and debate the role of the informal sector in South Africa's future economy. (DÜI-Hff)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Framing the Sexual Subject -- Part One: Bodies, Cultures, and Identities -- Chapter One. Bodyplay -- Chapter Two. Masculinity in Indonesia -- Chapter Three. Male Homosexuality and Seropositivity -- Part Two: Sex, Gender, and Power -- Chapter Four. Sexual Rights -- Chapter Five. Cross-National Perspectives on Gender and Power -- Chapter Six. Gender Stereotypes and Power Relations -- Chapter Seven. AIDS, Medicine, and Moral Panic in the Philippines -- Chapter Eight. Survival Sex and HIV/AIDS in an African City -- Chapter Nine. Cultural Regulation, Self-Regulation, and Sexuality -- Chapter Ten. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene -- Afterword The Production of Knowledge on Sexuality in the AIDS Era -- Contributors -- Index