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by Brooke Schwartz Bocast (Author)
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.
Brooke Schwartz Bocast is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montana State University. Her work has been published in City & Society, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Anthropology and Humanism, and The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. She writes about East African culture and politics at the Council on Foreign Relations' Africa in Transition blog.
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