Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

ISBN-13: 9781560238829 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str.

Nancy L. Roth; Linda K. Fuller

Opis

For many women, the advice "Use a condom!" is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, "negotiating" safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality. The book's authors maintain that the key to curbing the spread of HIV and to caring for those already infected--is communication. The first volume to address HIV/AIDS and women from a communication perspective, this helpful guidebook addresses how women might achieve safer sexual and drug injection practices with partners, but it also explores women's negotiation of the health care system as patients, medical research subjects, and caregivers.

Spis treści

Contents Introduction

• Part I. Negotiating Safer Practices
• Reconsidering the HIV/AIDS Prevention Needs of Latino Women in the U.S.
• Understanding Safer Sex Negotiation in a Group of Low-Income African Women
• HIV-Related Communication and Power in Women Injecting Drug Users
• Safer Sex Negotiation in Cross-Cultural Romantic Dyads: An Extension of Ting-Toomey’s Face Negotiation Theory
• Navigating the Freedoms of College Life: Students Talk About Alcohol, Gender, and Sex
• Part II. Negotiating Care
• Communicating an HIV+ Diagnosis
• Affirming the Role of Women as Carers: The Social Construction of AIDS Through the Eyes of Mother, Friend, and Nurse
• Enacting Care: Successful Recruitment, Retention, and Compliance of Women in HIV/AIDS Medical Research
• Part III. Negotiating Representation
• Women and the AIDS Memorial Quilt
• Redressing Sanuk: “Asian AIDS” and the Practices of Women’s Resistance
• The Desire to Direct Differently: Women Producer/Directors of AIDS Films
• Sentimentality, Race, and Boys on the Side
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Nancy L. Roth, Linda K. Fuller